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3 unusual facts about Steven Tainer


Steven Tainer

After a collaboration with Ming Liu (born Charles Belyea) in the 1980s and eight years of training and retreat practice, Steven Tainer was declared a successor in a family lineage of yogic Taoism.

Since then, he has studied Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism with sixteen Tibetan, Chinese and Korean teachers, as well as a number of senior monks and nuns.

Together with Piet Hut, Steven Tainer has explored two distinctive ways of knowing, science and contemplation and how they can be reconciled at the Princeton Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.



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