And why does the Chinese government want to destroy it? The name Falun Gong (the practice of the wheel of Dharma) refers to five sets of lotus postures and hand movement exercises set to Chinese music ...

Walking toward Chicago’s Federal Plaza a few months ago, I saw what appeared to be a rather large aggregate of people engaging in aerobic exercises. On closer inspection, however, the group—many of ...

Surrounded by forests and guarded by armed security, Dragon Springs is a refuge for persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Few outsiders are permitted inside. About 100 people are said to be living in a ...

Newspaper photos of Chinese police arresting practitioners of tai-chi-like exercises called Falun Gong have appeared frequently in the past year, yet little is known in the West about this decade-old ...

Who are the Falun Gong? Technically speaking, nobody is. The term Falun Gong refers to a discipline, a set of physical and mental exercises with roots in the same Eastern traditions as yoga and t'ai ...

“It came to me as a total surprise, in 1999 when the government decided to prosecute these people,” says Zhang Erping, volunteer spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Information Center in New York, ...

WALK into Chinatown in any big Western city, and on the main street you are likely to find a row of seated meditators, their legs crossed and backs straight. Seemingly innocuous, they could easily ...