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• (from Wade–Giles) Fa-lun kung

語源

Transliteration of Mandarin 法輪功／法轮功 (Fǎlún Gōng) via Hanyu Pinyin. "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.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː.lən ɡɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑ.lən ɡɔŋ/

固有名詞

Falun Gong

1. A spiritual practice founded in China by Li Hongzhi (李洪志) in 1992, purporting to enable practitioners to ascend spiritually through moral rectitude and the practice of exercises and meditation.

   Synonym: Falun Dafa

   • 1998 May, Li HongZhi, CHINA FALUN GONG (REVISED EDITION) (English Version)‎^[1], Hong Kong: Falun Fo Fa Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, 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".

   • 2002, Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World‎^[2], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

   • 2002 February 23, Bei Ling, Andrea Huss, “Warming Up to China, Neglecting Democracy”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 November 2010, Opinion‎^[4]:

     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.

   • 2009 April 27, Andrew Jacobs, “China Still Presses Crusade Against Falun Gong”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 February 2011, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Falun Gong.