Why is the peaceful spiritual movement of Falun Gong Da Fa banned & practicioner severyly prosecuted in China?
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China is still oppressive.  It's a paranoid government.  They don't give two craps about the universal rights of anything.
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God punishes everyone. why would chinese people be exempt?
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Dear $$$$,\n\nOne of the first things the Communists did in China after taking power in 1949 was to reform family law. Polygamous marriages (previously a strong tradition in Chinese culture) were outlawed and divorce was made available to women as well as men. The Communists also promoted the advancement of women in every area of society. In that regard, the Communists can indeed be argued to have dealt positively with some of the more unsavoury realities of traditional Chinese culture, which was often extremely unfavourable towards women.\n\nFor the rest, however, their record is frankly dismal. From the very beginning the Communists launched a massive attack on most aspects of Chinese culture, cracking down on religious practice and the millennia-old tradition of ancestor worship, which were dismissed as "bourgeois superstitions". Spiritual figures such as Buddhist monks and shamans, previously an integral part of Chinese culture, were imprisoned. Cultural festivals were abolished - even Chinese New Year was considered to be part of the "old superstitions", and the Communists replaced it by the politically correct appelation of "spring festival" (which is still in use today).\n\nIn the 1970s, Mao's wife Jiang Qing initiated a "criticise Confucius" campaign, seeking to cast shame and discredit on one of China's greatest cultural influences. There was even a plan at some point to abolish the Chinese writing system altogether and replace it with the Roman alphabet. Thankfully this plan proved to be unworkable and was quickly scrapped.\n\nBut nothing compares with the catastrophe unleashed upon Chinese culture by the Communists during the infamous Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). During that fanatical time, all icons of traditional culture were decreed to be "reactionary" and violently attacked. Classical Chinese literature was banned. Thousands of temples and churches across the country were ransacked, looted or destroyed and millions of priceless cultural artefacts were lost. \n\nThis is without even mentioning, of course, the millions of people who were brutally killed, tortured, or removed from their jobs and sent to undergo hard labour in the countryside for somehow becoming associated with "old ways of thinking". This was a huge trauma for Chinese society, and the country still has not finished recovering from it. All in all, the Communists have been very bad news for Chinese culture.\n\nBut it is also important to note that things have changed, and nowadays the Communist authorities have advocated a revival of Chinese culture. It is fine to read Confucius again, temples have reopened and the government has openly espoused a traditional Chinese architectural style for many of its buildings (and encouraged this trend in the private sector too). The Cultural Revolution has been cautiously condemned as a mistake.\n\nHope this helped,
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This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
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okay, i'm by no means an expert, but i wanna try anyway.\n\nbuddhism's got somethin' called The Four Noble Truths, which basically outline the nature of suffering, and The Eightfold Path, which tells ye how to deal with and hopefully eliminate suffering.  maybe i got that backwards, but i don't think so.\n\npart of ending suffering is right thinking (compassion is another).  since some pornography is exploitive (not all), then i think that the support of such would be frowned upon by buddhists.\n\non the other hand, you have different levels of involvement.  y'got y'lay buddhists--your everyday people.  and y'got y'monks--those who devote the entirety of their lives to buddhism.  for the latter, i'm pretty sure they must remain celibate (and dry--that means no booze), so either that one thang (ach, censorship!) or pornography i'm guessing would not be allowed.  even with lay-buddhists in general, i think drinking is still frowned upon somewhat...\n\nokay, not all monks can't drink and such...  so i've heard, the shaolin monks are exempt from the drinking rule (don't know about taking a wife) because long, long ago, they saved the emperor.  in thanks, he allowed them some leniency in their practices...  it's not like they can just go to a bar and drink whene'er they want though!!  their life is still quite involved with the temple, and that's putting it mildly!\n\ni hope that helps.  if not, i'm sure you can find some good resources on e-sangha.  it's a free buddhist newsgroup.\nhttp://www.lioncity.net/buddhism
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Falun Gong is the fastest growing on Earth...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong\n\nChristianity has surpassed Islam...\nhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44033\nexcerpt...\n"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year," he says. \nSo fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.\n\nThe more Islam persecutes Christians, the faster it will grow! History has proved this true.
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Frankly I believe that would be a foolhardy idea to try. I'm no expert on Chinese law, but I do know that certain forms of protest are not legal, such as flag burning. China has come a great distance from the type of society it once was, but make no mistake, they are not a democratic one.\n\nAt best, you might be deported and at worst, arrested and held indefinately. Don't screw around in a foreign country
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hi there, mehereintheeast.  I'm not sure exactly where you can take Chinese classes.  I took some Chinese a few years ago and the way I found a teacher was by going to the campus of a university and asking people who looked Chinese. (Amazingly, every person who I thought was Chinese was actually from China.)\n\nYou answered my question about Guru Rinpoche, and I have a few more questions about it.  Your answer implied that Buddhas are not monks.  Most forms of Buddhism consider Shakyamuni Buddha to have been a monk, and in the Pali texts, he refers to himself that way, as do his disciples.  Is there a different view in the Nyingma school?  In the present case, I am not calling only lamas monks, but all five levels of ordained practitioners as defined by Tibetan Buddhism. Also, is there any record of Padmasambhava having been ordained?  He trained at monasteries in India, but I don't think he was actually ordained.  And finally, have you had any contact with Tibetans, Nyingmapa or otherwise, who feel that his choice to have various female consorts prevents him from maintaining the status of being a monk?  I understand that some people there feel that way.\n\nThanks.
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You should go to china , Once upon a time (about 20 years ago),China government implemented a social movement against criminal activities called "yangda" ----burglary,rape,robbery,bribery etc...anything could sentence to immediate execution by gun-shot (relatives paid for bullets fee, How miserly the government is!!!)
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This is the result of a long process of sinicization of the world. China has always been regarded as aggressive, therefore, 2/5 of its territory is occupied after the communist regime, break-away taiwan is another proof of the communist regimes stance. Tibet, Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Inner Mongolia are a few among those who are not of yellow races, accordingly, not Han Chinese (ghuo). they are Tibetan buddhists, Turkic Uyghurs or Mongols. Huis are another one represented as a star on the chinese flag. I am afraid political leaders and officials are not well-aware of this policy. They only care for money, capital investments, but not capital punishment, gross human rights abuses committed by the communist regime.
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Most of them don't know about it.  It is never mentioned on the news or in text books.  Censorship is alive and well in China.\n (I had a friend who was studying in China at the time it happened, when he got home about six weeks later and I asked him about it - he hadn't even heard of it).
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Because the Chinese govt. has opened its country to foreign capitalist business, and if Yahoo wants to do business in China they must play by the rules that the Chinese govt has set even if it means the good guys get caught. But money is money and that is the bottom line.
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Need more clarification.  What enlightenment are you talking about?   Religion of Buddaisim and Latin America are pretty different
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Wow, are you ever way off.\n\nIt is only recently that the East has had such poverty.  They were advanced beyond the West in many eras.  \n\nTheir spirituality is so pure.  They do not have this limited vision of God, that there is one way and one way only to God, and that if you don't follow that way, then you are off to hell.\n\nThey encourage spiritual seeking, thinking deeply, searching the soul, looking deep within, and realizing the ultimate Truth.  Whereas in the West, you just read a book, and mimic whatever it tells you to believe.\n\nEDIT:  I also want to add that you are possibly judging spirituality by materiality, and that is not correct in my opinion.\nI would rather be happy and poor than wealthy and miserable.  I think in the West, people are wealthy and miserable.  Those who live simpler lives are often much more fulfilled spiritually.\n\nI once heard a Chinese man say that he "tried Taoism" but was so unimpressed, because he never got rich practicing Taoism!  How silly!  You do not practice a religion to get rich!  His mind was focusing on the wrong goals.
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LEARN FROM THIS, IDIOTS!!!\n\nYou abuse your freedoms, lie about the government and laugh about abuses.\n\nPlease notice that this is not allowed around the world.\n\nStill think it's funny when someone has his rights trampled upon?\n\nFor Yahoo to do business in China, they have to make compromises.  CHINA IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY.\n\nThose are the rules.  Would it be better to have no Internet in China?  Sometimes you have to compromise.
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What do you mean by "radical"? The word radical means "of the root."\n\nDo you mean, instead, physically hostile? There are already laws on the books against such action, and the only need to is enforce those laws, not deny anyone the practice of their religion.\n\nIf the religion preaches violence, its practicioners will be in jail, one by one, every time they practice violence. \n\nYou can never stop someone from practicing a religion, anyway: it simply goes underground -- which is something their unlawful actions cannot do.
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Yahoo! justified providing Tao's personal emails to Chinese police by arguing that it was only following local (Chinese) laws since the emails were stored in servers in China. \n\nHowever, Many ask why Yahoo! uses servers in China knowing that it will be legally obliged to disclose private information of its    email service users to the government, which may lead to its email users being jailed as was the case with Mr. Tao.\n\nWhether this was morally justified, I leave this for you to judge!