]> 2026-10-11T13:10:41-04:00 People/Tan, P. 0 en The Minding Centre (TMC) [http://www.themindingcentre.org/dharmafarer/piyatan themindingcentre.org] Piya Tan, who works on the Sutta Discovery Project . . . was a former Theravada monk for 20 years. Today he is a full time lay Dharma teacher specializing in early Buddhism. He was consultant and regular lecturer to the Buddhist Studies Team (BUDS) that successfully introduced Buddhist Studies in Singapore Secondary Schools in the 1980s. After that, he was invited as a visiting scholar to the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He has written many ground-breaking and educational books on Buddhism (such as ''Total Buddhist Work'') and social surveys (such as ''Buddhist Currents and Charisma in Buddhism''). As a full-time Dharma teacher, he runs Buddhist, Sutta and Pali classes like the basic Pali course series, the Sutta Study Group (NUSBS), Dharma courses (the Singapore Buddhist Federation), Sutta Discovery classes (Buddhist Fellowship and elsewhere), and Sutta-based (including meditation) courses (Brahm Education Centre), besides his own full-time Pali translation and research project, the Pali House, and doing a comparative study of the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas. As a Theravada monk, he learned insight meditation from Mahasi Sayadaw himself in the 1980s. As a lay teacher, he learned forest meditation from the Ajahn Brahmavamso. He has run numerous meditation courses and retreats for students and adults (including non-Buddhists) since 1980s. In 1992, he taught meditation at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and also to BP, JPMorgan, the Defence Science Organization, GMO, HP and SIA. He is doing all this for the love of Dharma and of Ratna and their two children. ([http://www.themindingcentre.org/dharmafarer/piyatan Source Accessed Nov 10 2020]) Malacca, Malaysia Person People File:Tan Piya themindingcentre.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/a/a7/Tan_Piya_themindingcentre.jpg true true true File:Tan Piya themindingcentre.jpg File:Tan Piya themindingcentre.jpg Piya Tan;陈明信;Piya Tan Beng Sin;Tan, P. false 陈明信 Piya Tan Piya Tan Beng Sin Tan Piya themindingcentre.jpg Tan, P. Piya Tan 陈明信 Piya Tan Beng Sin Authors of English Works Chinese Buddhist Teachers and Translators Theravāda Classical Piya Tan, who works on the Sutta Discovery Project . . . was a former Theravada monk for 20 years. Today he is a full time lay Dharma teacher specializing in early Buddhism. He was consultant and regular lecturer to the Buddhist Studies Team (BUDS) that successfully introduced Buddhist Studies in Singapore Secondary Schools in the 1980s. After that, he was invited as a visiting scholar to the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He has written many ground-breaking and educational books on Buddhism (such as ''Total Buddhist Work'') and social surveys (such as ''Buddhist Currents and Charisma in Buddhism''). As a full-time Dharma teacher, he runs Buddhist, Sutta and Pali classes like the basic Pali course series, the Sutta Study Group (NUSBS), Dharma courses (the Singapore Buddhist Federation), Sutta Discovery classes (Buddhist Fellowship and elsewhere), and Sutta-based (including meditation) courses (Brahm Education Centre), besides his own full-time Pali translation and research project, the Pali House, and doing a comparative study of the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas. As a Theravada monk, he learned insight meditation from Mahasi Sayadaw himself in the 1980s. As a lay teacher, he learned forest meditation from the Ajahn Brahmavamso. He has run numerous meditation courses and retreats for students and adults (including non-Buddhists) since 1980s. In 1992, he taught meditation at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and also to BP, JPMorgan, the Defence Science Organization, GMO, HP and SIA. He is doing all this for the love of Dharma and of Ratna and their two children. ([http://www.themindingcentre.org/dharmafarer/piyatan Source Accessed Nov 10 2020]) Tan, P.;;;Piya Tan;;; ; ; 1949/08/20 2020-11-11T00:52:27Z 2459164.5364236 2020-11-11T00:52:27Z 2459164.5364236 true People/Tan, P. 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Tan, P.]] People/Tan, P.# QUERY02dab1869bd243b18c75b23ac9764ab9 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Tan, P.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Tan, P.||People/Tan, P.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Tan, P.]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Tan, P.# QUERYeadd97b0e7658d65291c3bf1d108250b 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Tan, P.]] People/Tan, P.# QUERYa9429209918bd2f1fcb0fb11163b229d Articles/The Soul of Chinese Buddhism: Buddha-Nature and Universal Awakening; The Rise of Chinese Buddhist Humanism 0 en The Soul of Chinese Buddhism: Buddha-Nature and Universal Awakening; The Rise of Chinese Buddhist Humanism Tan, P. 0 en Tan, P. AuthorPage 102 en AuthorPage REDI 102 en REDI