My name is Xia Xianzhen. My husband Huang Depu was born in 1940 and used to work with Chengdu Railway Bureau. He was obsessed with Falun Gong, jumped from a tall building in pursuit of “Consummation” and died tragically.
However, one group that would fit the White Lotus niche politically is Falun Gong. The White Lotus religions are generally followed by people who feel that they are oppressed, such as women and poor people. They are looking for a way out, and they have frequently overturned the government.
Born in Baotou, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Luo Juzhi was an employee in a state-owned enterprise before retirement, living in the Eastern Qingshan Road of Qingshan District. However, she committed suicide by cutting her wrist in desperation, with deep love towards her youngest s...
Dr Heather Kavan is drawn to religions, cults and ‘altered states’. In the past decade, this senior lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing has journeyed deep into a landscape shunned by most academics, turning her dispatches into journal articles and conference papers.
Falun Gong once initiated its propaganda to recklessly hype the lawsuit concerning accuser Zhang Qingxi, president of Taiwan Falun Dafa Association, and the defendants including Hu Litai, president of United Daily (Taiwan), and Luo Guojun, chief editor of the newspaper office.
He is anti-gay and teaches that homosexuals will be "eliminated" by "the gods." He preaches that children from multicultural unions have lost their roots and will never be recognized as a human race. If you challenge his teachings or question his beliefs you will be repeatedly subjected to personal ...
On Dec. 31, 2011, Huang Lianhua phoned my mother, asking her to rush to the Wusihe Railway Station to promote the Fa. In order to save time, my mother took a shortcut and hurried to the railway station at night. When she passed by the Changheba Grand Canyon, she fell into the canyon, and died.
Zhou Zhengyi was graduated from cooking specialty of the Caohekou Town Technical School. His father, Zhou Dabo, hanged himself. His mother, Liu Liping, died of breast cancer. Both his parents had been workers in Caohekou Town Chemical Plant, whose deaths were Falun Gong-related.
Shen Yun would probably only receive 2 stars from myself and a few of the audience members I spoke too. Having seen the show in Australia a few years ago and loved it I was surprised by the lack of fluidity throughout the show which I had seen before. But some would obviously disagree with me.
I entered the gate of Falun Gong in a fog in summer of 1996 when I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun on the recommendation of a friend, and the statements in the book that people could be cured without taking medicine and could also become Buddha by cultivation really attracted me deeply.
Human engineers are at work in a variety of fields. They are increasing the capacity of a relatively small number of people to control, modify, manipulate, reshape the lives of a great number of other people. And they are functioning in many countries.
On the night of April 5, 2000, we were sitting in meditation for practicing and suddenly my husband threw himself down on the ground and spit out blood, never to stand up. Then I started to fluster and burst into loud sobs with my husband in my arms. But it was too late.
In China, there are several taboo topics that are (as taboos go) not to be discussed in the media, or really at all. These include any criticisms of the Chinese government, the situation in Tibet or other contested areas in China, pornography, and the Falun Gong group.
Since then, we began to doubt about Falun Gong and the supernatural ability of the Master. We wondered whether it was because that the Master’s words and Law Body didn’t work at the time or we’ve just been deceived at the very start.
A few years ago I had the privilege of speaking to house church leaders in a meeting on the outskirts of the huge city of Xian in China. As the morning passed into afternoon I noticed one young lady in her early 20s who was attending the meeting. During the meal times and breaks she hobbled around t...