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Steven Tainer

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Steven Arthur Tainer (born 26 July 1947) is an instructor of Asian contemplative traditions.[1][2]

Spiritual education

Tainer began his study of Tibetan Buddhism in 1970. His primary teachers included Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche and Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.[citation needed]

Upon the publication of Time, Space, and Knowledge[3] in 1977, which he ghostwrote for his first instructor,[dubious – discuss] Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, he earned an advanced degree in Tibetan Buddhist studies.[citation needed] He was eventually named a Dharma heir of Tarthang Tulku,[dubious – discuss] however, he did not take up the position. After collaborating with Ming Liu (born Charles Belyea) in the 1980s, Tainer was declared a successor in a family lineage of yogic Taoism. In 1991, he co-authored a book with Ming Liu (Charles Belyea), titled Dragon's Play and together founded Da Yuen Circle of Yogic Taoism.[4][5]

Starting in the mid-1980s, he studied Confucian views of contemplation emphasizing exemplary conduct in ordinary life.[citation needed]

Career

He first taught under the direction of his masters in the early 1970s.[citation needed] Tainer began teaching his groups in 1990.[citation needed]

Since 1995, Tainer has been a faculty member of the Institute for World Religions[6] and the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.[7]

Tainer is one of the founders of the Kira Institute.[8] Between 1998 and 2002, Piet Hut and Tainer organized a series of annual summer schools.[citation needed]

In 2024, Yuko Ishihara and Tainer published Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality,[9] which explores using play within "suspension of judgement", with roots in Western phenomenological and Eastern Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian disciplines, for first-person direct examination of experience.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dream Yoga". Yoga Journal. January–February 1997. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  2. ^ Lojeski 2009, p. xix.
  3. ^ Tarthang Tulku 1977.
  4. ^ Belyea & Tainer 1991.
  5. ^ Komjathy 2004, p. 16.
  6. ^ "Institute for World Religions". Dharma Realm Buddhist University. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  7. ^ Berkeley Monastery: Teachers
  8. ^ "Kira Institute". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  9. ^ Ishihara & Tainer 2024.

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