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Li Hongzhi (Chinese: 李洪志; born 1951 or 1952) is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong , or Falun Dafa , a United States–based new religious movement . Li began his public teachings of Falun Gong on 13 May 1992 in Changchun , and subsequently gave lectures and taught Falun Gong exercises across China .
Li Hongzhi published the Teachings of Falun Gong in Changchun, China in 1992. They cover a wide range of topics ranging from spiritual, scientific and moral to metaphysical.. The teachings of Falun Gong are based on the principles of zhēn 眞, shàn 善 and rěn 忍 (which translate approximately as truthfulness, benevolence, and forbearance) [1] articulated in the two main books Falun Gong ...
Falun Gong is entirely based around the teachings of its autocratic founder and leader: China-born Li Hongzhi. [48] According to NBC News, to his followers, Li is "a God-like figure who can levitate, walk through walls and see into the future. His ultra-conservative and controversial teachings include a rejection of modern science, art and ...
1994 – Li gives two lectures on Falun Gong at the Public Security University in Beijing, and contributes profits from the seminars to a foundation for injured police officers. [3] 1994 – On 3 August, the City of Houston, Texas, declares Li Hongzhi an honorary citizen for his "unselfish public service for the benefit and welfare of mankind ...
From 1992 to 1994, Li Hongzhi traveled throughout China giving week-long seminars on Falun Gong's spiritual philosophy and exercises and meditation practices. In late 1994, he declared that he had finished his work of teaching the practice in China, and the content of his lectures was compiled in the book Zhuan Falun , published in January 1995 ...
Li Hongzhi describes the Shen Yun performance as a means of "saving" audiences. [1] Shen Yun's performances have been described as promoting sectarian doctrines and negative views of evolution and atheism. [11] The group is promoted by The Epoch Times, a far-right media outlet affiliated with Falun Gong.
Dragon Springs, also known as the Mountain, [1] is a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) compound in Deerpark, New York, US that is the headquarters of the global Falun Gong new religious movement and the Shen Yun performance arts troupe. [2]
Overseas Chinese propaganda using this label has been censured by Western governments. The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission in 2006 took issue with anti–Falun Gong broadcasts from Chinese Central Television (CCTV), noting "they are expressions of extreme ill will against Falun Gong and its founder, Li Hongzhi.