Falun Gong

See also: Fǎlún Gōng

English

Alternative forms

• Fa-lun kung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Transliteration from 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.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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.

Translations

a spiritual practice

• Arabic: فَالُون غُونْغ m (falūn ḡunḡ), فَالُون دَافَا (fālūn dāfā)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 法輪功／法轮功 (faat³ leon⁴ gung¹), 法輪大法／法轮大法 (faat³ leon⁴ daai⁶ faat³)

  Mandarin: 法輪功／法轮功 (zh) (Fǎlún Gōng), 法輪大法／法轮大法 (zh) (Fǎlún Dàfǎ)

• Finnish: Falun Gong
• Georgian: ფალუნ დაფა (palun dapa), ფალუნ გუნი (palun guni)
• Hebrew: פָאלוּן דָאפָא, פאלון גונג
• Japanese: 法輪功 (ほうりんこう, Hōrinkō; ふぁーるんごん, Fārungon), ファールンゴン (Fārungon)
• Korean: 파룬궁 (Parun'gung), 법륜공(法輪功) (Beomnyun'gong)
• Persian: فالون‌گانگ
• Portuguese: Falun Gong m
• Russian: Фалуньгу́н m (Falunʹgún), Фалу́нь Дафа́ (Falúnʹ Dafá)
• Serbo-Croatian: Фалун Гонг (Falun Gong)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Pháp Luân Công (vi) (法輪功), Pháp Luân Đại Pháp (vi) (法輪大法)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Falun Gong m

1. Falun Gong (a spiritual practice founded in China in 1992)