Gia-Fu Feng

Gia - Fu Feng (* 1919, † 1985) was a Chinese translator of classical Daoist literature and a Tao teachers in the United States. He studied National Southwestern Associated University (西南 联合 大学) in Kunming. Fritz Perls Gestalt therapy had a significant influence on his later work, with Jack Kerouac, Abraham Maslow and Alan Watts, he was a rigger combination of eastern and western wisdom, such as humanistic psychology.

He was born in 1919 in Shanghai, the son of a wealthy family. His father was a prominent banker and one of the founders of the Bank of China. In 1947 he came to the U.S. to make a Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Since the Communists had conquered China and the Korean War began, he remained in the United States. He then began to translate Chinese literature, eg for Alan Watts at the " American Academy of Asian Studies ." Alan Watts later said that Gia - Fu was "The Real Thing".

Gia - Fu was part of the East-West philosophy and the spiritual movement in California, which was built around the AAAS (later known as the California Institute of Integral Studies ). This also influenced the socio-cultural transformation, also known as the San Francisco Renaissance. Michael Murphy, one of the founders of the Esalen Institute, was at that time a student at the AAAS and at Stanford. For this network, the Esalen, in which Gia - Fu et al as an accountant, lifeguard, "Crazy Taoist " was created. In 1966 he founded his own Stillpoint Foundation as Daoist community, which moved to the mountains of Colorado in 1977. At the same time, his regular and more frequent visits began in Europe. The travel activity ended in 1982, when he drew upon pneumonia in Germany, in consequence of which he died in Still Point, Colorado in 1985.

Publications

• Tai Chi, A Way of Centering & I Ching (1970 )
• Lao Tsu - Tao Te Ching along with Jane English ( 1972)
• Chuang Tsu - Inner Chapters along with Jane English ( 1974)
• Still Point of the Turning World: The Life of Gia - Fu Feng " [ Paperback ] Carol A. Wilson ( 2009)