Philosopher, performing artist, and internationally-acclaimed Tao master, Chungliang Al Huang is the founder-president of the Living Tao Foundation and the international Lan Ting Institute in the sacred mountains in China, and on the Oregon Coast of the United States. He is one of the most sought after speakers in the fields of human potentiality, cultural diversity, and creative dynamism.
Huang is a research scholar of the Academia Sinica, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and an assembly member for the Council for a Parliament of the World Religions. He is the recipient of the New Dimension Broadcaster Award and received the prestigious Gold Medal from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China. He has also received the highest rated Speaker’s Award from the Young Presidents’ Organization.
A close colleague and collaborator with the late scholar Alan Watts and mythologist Joseph Campbell, Huang was featured in the inaugural segment of Bill Moyers’ renowned PBS World of Ideas series. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including the classic, Embrace Tiger, Return To Mountain, and Quantum Soup, and coauthor of Tao: The Watercourse Way (with Alan Watts) and Thinking Body, Dancing Mind (with Jerry Lynch). He also collaborated with Grammy Award-winning artist David Darling on the album The Zen of Poetry.
What People are Saying About Chungliang Al Huang
“To work with Al Huang is to learn to move with the wind and water in the course of everyday life...[he is] a truly superior and gifted teacher who works upon others as the sun and rain upon plants.”
—Alan Watts, author of the classic The Wisdom of Insecurity
“Like sunlight, Chungliang Al Huang’s delicate mix of wisdom and humor comes in discrete energy packets (quanta) but gives continuous pleasure and nourishment.”
—Fritjof Capra, author of the best-selling The Tao of Physics
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