Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism蓬莱阁道教学院（国际道家太极拳社）

Type

Overseas Daoist Temples

Location

Canada · Ontario · Toronto · Headquartered in Toronto; the Quiet Cultivation Centre stands on a 42-hectare property near Orangeville

First built

1970 (Mei Lianxian founded the Taiji Society in Toronto) · Registered in 1995 as the International Taoist Tai Chi Society; after Moy Lin-shin's death in 1998 the two associations separated, and from 2012 Fung Loy Kok has served as the international governing body

Overview

The Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism was founded in Toronto in 1970 by Moy Lin-shin, together with its sister organization the International Taoist Tai Chi Society, forming one of the largest networks of Daoist practice in the world today. Its practice combines a modified Yang-style taijiquan form with Liuhebafa (Six Harmonies and Eight Methods) and Daoist internal-cultivation techniques, while its teaching draws on Confucian ethics, Buddhist non-attachment, and Daoist cultivation — a representative case of Daoism spreading to the West through bodily technique, most Western practitioners first encountering Daoist teaching through taiji. It was formally registered in 1995; after Moy Lin-shin's death in 1998 the two associations separated, and from 2012 Fung Loy Kok has served as the international governing body. Figures from 2007 showed activity in twenty-six countries with roughly forty thousand members. On a forty-two-hectare property near Orangeville, Ontario, the association built a large Chinese-style temple complex, the Quiet Cultivation Centre, consecrated on September 8, 2007, with some 2,500 members attending; it jointly venerates Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism.

Highlights

• Founded by Moy Lin-shin in 1970
• Daoism transmitted to the West through taiji
• 26 countries, roughly 40,000 members (2007)
• Quiet Cultivation Centre, Orangeville (2007)