Why is there no talk on here about Li Hongzhi and the Falun Gong cult? If you want a deep rabbit hole, here it is.

Fyi, op is an operative for the Chinese Communist party that has been systematically hunting and murdering falun gong practitioners for many years. 

They are not a cult. They’re a Buddhist meditation group that believes in personal freedoms, privacy rights, and self-determination 

They’re somewhat new age in that respect. They started a little bit of an enlightening 30-40 years ago And the CCP decided that it could be dangerous to their control to have people seeking enlightenment under their watch so they cracked down in Tibet And have forced the dalai lama under house arrest for multiple decades. They also have passed a law that xiping gets to choose the dalai lama successor. 

Being fallun gong is an ideology and it’s not limited to a specific region like Tibet their only solution was to scoop them off off the street in Mass and put them in slave labor camps. Many of them escaped to America. Their primary source of income is the big dance And performing arts school they own in New York City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun. It was founded by refugees who escaped Chinese oppression

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“Falun Gong emerged from the qigong movement in China in 1992, combining meditation, qigong exercises, and moral teachings rooted in Buddhist and Taoist traditions.[14][15][16] It does not consider itself a religion.[17] While supported by some[which?] government agencies,[18][19] Falun Gong’s rapid growth and independence from state control led several top officials to perceive it as a threat, resulting in periodic acts of harassment in the late 1990s.[15][20][21] On 25 April 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered peacefully outside the central government compound in Beijing, seeking official recognition of the right to practice their faith without interference.[22][23]

In July 1999, the government of China implemented a ban on Falun Gong, categorizing it as an “illegal organization”. Mass arrests, widespread torture and abuses followed.[24][25] In 2008, U.S. government reports cited estimates that as much as half of China’s labor camp population was made up of Falun Gong practitioners.[26][27] In 2009, human rights groups estimated that at least 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners had died from persecution by that time.[28] A 2022 United States Department of State report on religious freedom in China stated that “Falun Gong practitioners reported societal discrimination in employment, housing, and business opportunities”.[29] According to the same report: “Prior to the government’s 1999 ban on Falun Gong, the government [of China] estimated there were 70 million adherents. Falun Gong sources claims that tens of millions continue to practice privately, and Freedom House estimates there are between 7 to 20 million practitioners.”[29]”