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Francisco Flores, El Salvador's president, has even spent time in India studying eastern philosophy.
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Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California, and is acknowledged as one of the master teachers of Eastern philosophy in the Western world.
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The winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, Shen creates dances that incorporate visual and storytelling elements from the theatre, Chinese opera, Eastern philosophy and traditional and contemporary visual art and sculpture.
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It is only recently I have realized that this Swami was in fact one of India's most influential spiritual teachers - the first to package eastern philosophy for the West.
BBC: Swami Vivekananda, the yoga missionary
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Two hires from Hollywood, whose credits included a TV series and a Sundance award-winning film, came onboard as vice presidents of production and programming, respectively, and helped steer content away from esoteric Eastern philosophy.
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To portray a serene assassin in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, he studied Eastern and Egyptian philosophy and samurai meditation.
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Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
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