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
- ^ "Dream Yoga". Yoga Journal. January–February 1997. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ Lojeski 2009, p. xix.
- ^ Tarthang Tulku 1977.
- ^ Belyea & Tainer 1991.
- ^ Komjathy 2004, p. 16.
- ^ "Institute for World Religions". Dharma Realm Buddhist University. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
- ^ Berkeley Monastery: Teachers
- ^ "Kira Institute". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ Ishihara & Tainer 2024.
Works cited
- Belyea, Charles; Tainer, Steven A. (1991). Dragon's Play: A New Taoist Transmission of the Complete Experience of Human Life. Xiao-Lun Lin (illustrator). Great Circle Lifeworks. ISBN 0-9629308-1-4.
- Ishihara, Yuko; Tainer, Steven A. (2024). Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing With Reality. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350298286.
- Komjathy, Louis (Fall 2004). "Tracing the Contours of Daoism in North America". Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 8 (2): 5–27. doi:10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.5. JSTOR 10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.5.
- Ochiogrosso, Peter (January–February 1997). "Dream Yoga". Yoga Journal. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- Lojeski, Karen Sobel (2009). Leading the Virtual Workforce: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-42280-9.
- Tarthang Tulku (1977). Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality. Dharma Pub. ISBN 0-913546-08-9.
- Tainer, Steven A. (Fall 2002). "Studying "No Mind": The Future of Orthogonal Approaches, Special Section on "Buddhism and Cognitive Science" (PDF). Pacific World Journal.
Further reading
- Yogis, Jaimal (October 2008). "Losing Everything Can Mean Finally Beginning". Shambhala Sun. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013.
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