Alex Anatole

Alex 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.

Alex Anatole
Alex Anatole
Born
Moscow, Russia, USSR
OccupationTaoist priest, teacher, and writer

Life and career

Grandmaster Alex Anatole was born in Moscow, Russia. At a young age, he was introduced to Master Lu Yang Tai, the "Enlightened One," a Taoist sage with genealogical lineage extending to the ancient origins of Taoism. From the age of eight, Alex was his only disciple, learning all aspects of the traditional Taoist Arts — philosophy, healing, theology, and religious procedures. After twenty years he was ordained as a Taoist priest, building several underground Taoist temples in Russia — hidden from the religious persecution of Soviet times. Eventually his spiritual activities became known to the authorities and he fled to the United States. 

Immigrating to the United States in 1976, he began teaching the physical elements of traditional Taoism, including internal/external qi quong and meditation.

With the collapse of communism in 1991 Grandmaster Anatole returned to Russia to help open Taoist temples in Moscow, and continues to return to lecture and teach a classical program of philosophy, theology, meditation, and internal/external qiquong. He writes and lectures throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Temple of Original Simplicity

In 1978 Grandmaster Anatole 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, which includes the Temple of Original Simplicity, was recognized as one of the few authentic Taoist temples outside mainland China and Taiwan. He established close ties to established temples in Shanghai.

The temple houses a wide collection of Taoist Deities, as well as, perhaps, the only Hall of Fox Immortals (Chinese: Huxian, Japanese:kitsune, Korean: kumiho) in the United States.

The temple offers traditional Taoist teachings including the philosophical teachings of the Tao Te Ching, meditation, Qi Gong, as well as the esoteric disciplines of The Fox Creed.

The Center of Traditional Taoist Studies also offers Lin Hun Therapy and Taoist Divine Guidance, which were officially recognized by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2019. (Reg#: 5,945,459 and 6,974,275)

Publications
  • The Truth of Tao (Center for Traditional Taoist Studies, Weston, Massachusetts, 2005), an analysis and application of the Taoist philosophy to life in the western world.[1]
  • 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.
  • The Tao of Celestial Foxes-The Way to Immortality Vol. I, II, III (Center for Traditional Taoist Studies, Weston, Massachusetts, 2015, 2016, 2017) A Fox Master's explanation of the Fox Creed.
  • A Synopsis of Taoist Teachings for the West (Center for Traditional Taoist Studies, Weston, Massachusetts, 2019)

References
  1. Loreta Poškaitė (2013). "Laozi's precepts for daily life in the contemporary world: two popular Western (American) interpretations" (PDF). International Journal of Area Studies. DeGruyter. 8 (1). Retrieved June 12, 2016.

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