The renowned Buddhist author Supawan Green, born in 1954, is a Thai-Chinese woman who graduated with an Honour Degree in Sociology at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1975. She has always been an active participant in Buddhism since her student years and has practiced as an ordained nun for 3 months in the northern Thai province of Payao and spent a further 3 months alone in a cave doing meditation.
In 1978, Supawan Green worked as a patient counselor for nearly 2 years at the Bangkok General Hospital, where she visited patients and guided them to do meditation - easing their worries and mental pain over their illnesses. Under the umbrella of the UNHCR, she then worked as a social worker in various refugee camps: working with unaccompanied minors in a Cambodian refugee camp, the Vietnamese Boat people and the Hmong refugees.
In 1981, she moved to England after being married to her British husband whom she met in the Cambodian refugee camp and soon after became a mother of her three sons. Despite her strong family commitments throughout the years, she continues to contribute her spiritual knowledge through her writings and by teaching tai chi and meditation at the University of Birmingham so that she could spread her humanitarian work to a wider audience.
Currently Supawan Green is the author of over 20 published books in both Thai and English. A few of her Thai books, especially the Thai version of Einstein Questions, Buddha Answers, have become bestsellers in Thailand.
Some of her interesting books in English are A Handful of Leaves, The User Guide to Life:The Moral Diet and The Law of Karma that cover a wide range of day to day life issues for which most people seek answers. Some of her works have been translated into French, Japanese, Chinese, and German and Indonesian versions are in the process of being translated.
Besides writing, Supawan also gives talks and conducts seminars that include meditation (bring your mental self back home) by using tai chi movements as a nonreligious means of easing mental pains. She is well known for having a ?no nonsense? style which makes her teaching of Buddhism unique. Her ability to simplify the profound Buddhist jargon into everyday concepts with clear illustrations, helpful metaphors and precise meanings make the Buddha?s wisdom accessible for modern people who are searching for a mental refuge. Supawan?s extraordinary qualities have helped her students to know exactly how to earn their own inner peace and balance. Supawan has been teaching for the past 20 years in various venues such as: universities, temples and holiday resorts both in the U.K and Thailand and farther afield including Singapore, Cameroon, USA, Germany and Holland.
Supawan is very confident that her formula for reaching World Peace by means of developing the mental skill of bringing the mental self back home is a brand new hope for humankind to live in harmony.
