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In 1981 Moy Lin-shin and Mui Ming-to established a
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Moy went overseas with a mission of spreading the understanding of Taoism and its practices. After some travel, he settled in
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Institute of Taoism as the main organization and the Taoist Tai Chi Society and the Gei Pang Lok Hup Academy as part of the Institute. This brought together the financial and
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Moy Lin Shin has been criticized by one Tai Chi practitioner for being unqualified and for teaching a version of tai chi that is "not generally recognised as an authentic style of tai chi" although that same critic admitted that his efforts "did a great deal to introduce thousands to tai chi".
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The founder of the Taoist Tai Chi
Society, a volunteer-run registered charity, Master Moy Lin-Shin, said that those doing tai chi should practise together and eat together...Lin-Shin formed the society in 1970 and it now has more than 500 branches around the world, including seven in
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Zealand, and the United States. This Institute maintains altars to the Taoist deities, i.e., the
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