Editing Falun Gong

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! colspan="2" | Falun Gong
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! Family
| Chinese / New religious movement
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! Origin region
| China
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! Founding period
| 20th century CE
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! Estimated adherents
| Estimates vary widely; practitioners are found in China, diaspora communities, and international networks.
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'''Falun Gong''', also known as '''Falun Dafa''', is a modern Chinese spiritual movement combining meditative exercises with moral teachings centered on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

== Overview ==

Falun Gong emerged in China in the early 1990s within the broader qigong environment. It teaches moral cultivation, meditation, exercises, karma, spiritual transformation, and a disciplined way of life. It has also become internationally known because of conflict with the Chinese government and advocacy by practitioners outside China.

== Key beliefs ==

* Truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance as core virtues
* Moral cultivation and self-improvement
* Karma, virtue, spiritual purification, and transformation of the body and mind
* Meditative discipline and exercise practice
* Respect for the teachings associated with Li Hongzhi

== Practices ==

* Five meditative and qigong-style exercises
* Study of Falun Gong texts and lectures
* Moral self-cultivation in daily life
* Group practice sessions and public demonstrations
* Advocacy and human-rights activity in some practitioner communities

== Places of worship ==

* Homes, parks, community centers, online spaces, and public practice sites

== Sacred texts ==

* ''Zhuan Falun'' and other writings and lectures associated with Li Hongzhi are central texts

== Holidays and observances ==

* Practitioners may mark Falun Dafa Day and other movement-related commemorations

== Branches and related traditions ==

* [[New Religious Movements]]
* [[Daoism]]
* [[Buddhism]]
* [[Qigong]]

== See also ==

* [[Religion]]
* [[Theology]]
* [[Philosophy of religion]]
* [[New Religious Movements]]
* [[Indigenous and Traditional Religions]]

[[Category:Religions]]
[[Category:East Asian religions]]
[[Category:New religious movements]]