Alex Anatole

Dr. Alex Anatole

Alexander Anatole (born in Moscow, Russia, USSR) is a Taoist priest, teacher, and writer. He directs centers of Taoist studies in Russia and the United States.

Life and career

Alexander Anatole was born in Moscow in a Taoist family, and studied under Grand Master Lu Tang Tai. He holds a doctorate in psychology from Moscow State University.

In 1966 Lu and Anatole founded the first Taoist temple in Moscow.^[1]

Immigrating to the United States in 1976, he began teaching the physical elements of traditional Taoism, including qigong and martial arts. In 1978 Anatole had founded the Center of Traditional Taoist Studies (originally The New England Center of Tao) near Boston. By the early nineties the center, located in Weston, Massachusetts, included the Temple of Original Simplicity, recognized as one of the few authentic Taoist temples outside mainland China and Taiwan. He established close ties to established temples in Shanghai.

With the collapse of communism in 1991 Anatole returned to Russia to help open Taoist temples in Moscow, and continues to return to lecture and teach a classical program of philosophy, religion, meditation, qigong, and martial arts. He writes and lectures throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Publications

• The Truth of Tao (Center for Traditional Taoist Studies, Weston, Massachusetts, 2005), presenting the Taoist way of life as a remedy for Western ills of consumerism and materialism.^[2]
• The Essence of Tao (Center for Traditional Taoist Studies, Weston, Massachusetts, 2009) A lineage master's interpretation of the core chapters of the Tao Te Ching.

References

Also:

• "Tracing the Contours of Daoism in North America" by Louis Komjathy Nova Religion November 2004, Vol. 8, No. 2, Pages 5–27 (university of California Press)

External links

• Official website
• Profile at Harvard University's Pluralism Project
• List of Daoist teachers in North America compiled by Professor Louis Komjathy of Pacific Lutheran University