Befriending China through qigong Studying in the Department of Comparative Religions at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, the wisdom of different cultures inspired his interest in Eastern religions, and in his junior year he began taking Chinese classes, many of them with teachers who had studied Chinese at NTU's Stanford Center.
因氣功認識中國大學時顧孟昇進入費城的史瓦斯摩爾學院比較宗教系，各種宗教的智慧之言，開啟了他對東方宗教的興趣，大三時他開始選修中文，校內不少教中文的老師都曾在台大史丹福中心學過中文。