International bestselling mindfulness author and early Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) teams up with admired American Buddhist abbot Soryu Forall to bring you this vital guide to Buddhism. Meng and Soryu carefully pored over the entirety of the early Buddhist texts (EBTs) to faithfully deliver their profound wisdom, packaged with Soryu's incisive sagacity and Meng's uncanny ability to explain deep concepts humorously and understandably. This book is personally blessed by the Dalai Lama, and vetted and approved by other highly esteemed Buddhist masters, some of whom praise its daring scope, both in breadth and depth. Within this book are the essentials about Buddhism that everyone needs to know.

Buddhism for All: The Joyful Path to Enlightenment, Chade-Meng Tan and Soryu Forall, Buddhism.net Publishing, Paperback, 374 pages, $19.99

Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is an award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, and philanthropist. At Google, where he held the title of Jolly Good Fellow, he led the creation of the groundbreaking mindfulness course called Search Inside Yourself.

Meng is Co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which has been nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Co-founder of Buddhism.net, and served as Executive Producer of the movie, Walk With Me, about Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He is also Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and adviser to a number of technology start-ups.

Meng delivered a TED talk on compassion at the United Nations, spoke about the development of kindness at the White House, and led mindfulness practice at the Vatican. He was featured on the front page of the New York Times. He has met four United States Presidents. The Dalai Lama gives him hugs. His personal motto is, "Life is too important to be taken seriously".