Falun Gong

Fǎlún Gōng English Alternative forms en Fa-lun kung Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 法輪功. "法輪" is a Chinese term referring to the Buddhist concept dharmachakra, and "功" means gong, a high-level or advanced type of spiritual meditation practice in China. Pronunciation en /ˈfɑː.lən ɡɒŋ/ RP en /ˈfɑ.lən ɡɔŋ/ GA fä′lo͝on′ go͝ong′ en Proper noun 1 A spiritual practice founded in China by Li Hongzhi (zh 李洪志) in 1992, purporting to enable practitioners to ascend spiritually through moral rectitude and the practice of exercises and meditation. en Falun Dafa en 1998 May Li Hongzhi Li HongZhi CHINA FALUN GONG (REVISED EDITION) (English Version) https://archive.org/details/chinafalungongch00liho/ Hong Kong Falun Fo Fa Publishing Co. 962-8143-13-1 754094128 34 https://archive.org/details/chinafalungongch00liho/page/34/ Of all the qigong exercises practised in China, Falun Gong is the only one that can have the effect of "the Law refining the practitioner". en 2002 w:Margaret Thatcher Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World https://archive.org/details/statecraft00marg/ w:HarperCollins 0-06-095912-6 49555254 7285694M 174 https://archive.org/details/statecraft00marg/page/174/ More recently, the Chinese authorities' paranoia in religious matters has become apparent in the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. It was banned in July 1999 and thousands of its members have since been arrested. en February 23, 2002 Bei Ling; Andrea Huss Warming Up to China, Neglecting Democracy https://web.archive.org/web/20101109062155/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/opinion/warming-up-to-china-neglecting-democracy.html 09 November 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/opinion/warming-up-to-china-neglecting-democracy.html Opinion As President Bush addressed students at Qinghua University in Beijing on the 30th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon's momentous trip to China, where was the mention of the six Qinghua graduate students recently sentenced in southern China's Xiangzhou District Court, in Zhuhai City, for "utilizing an evil cult to sabotage legal enforcement"? All are practitioners of Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation movement that numbers its followers in the tens of thousands. They had been writing articles about the persecution of Falun Gong members. en April 27, 2009 Andrew Jacobs China Still Presses Crusade Against Falun Gong https://web.archive.org/web/20110201151556/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/asia/28china.html 01 February 2011 Asia Pacific The decision to ban the group entirely was made after 10,000 Falun Gong adherents staged a silent protest outside the gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party’s leadership compound in Beijing, to complain about reports in the state-run media that the group said were defamatory. en Translations a spiritual practice Arabic: ar فَالُون غُونْغ m falūn ḡunḡ, ar فَالُون دَافَا Armenian: hy Chinese: Cantonese: yue 法輪功 faat3 leon4 gung1, yue 法輪大法 faat3 leon4 daai6 faat3 Mandarin: cmn 法輪功 Fǎlún Gōng, cmn 法輪大法 Fǎlún Dàfǎ Finnish: fi Falun Gong Georgian: ka ფალუნ დაფა, ka ფალუნ გუნი Hebrew: he פָאלוּן דָאפָא, he פאלון גונג Japanese: ja 法輪功 ほうりんこう, Hōrinkō; ふぁーるんごん, Fārungon, ja ファールンゴン Fārungon Korean: ko ^파룬궁, ko ^법륜공(法輪功) Persian: fa فالون‌گانگ Portuguese: pt Falun Gong m Russian: ru Фалуньгу́н m, ru Фалу́нь Дафа́ Serbo-Croatian: sh Фалун Гонг Falun Gong Thai: th Uyghur: ug فالۇنگۇڭ Vietnamese: vi Pháp Luân Công (vi 法輪功), vi Pháp Luân Đại Pháp (vi 法輪大法) en Religion Portuguese Proper noun m en Falun Gong a spiritual practice founded in China in 1992 pt Religion