falun gong
/ˈfɑ.lən ɡɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
Example Sentences
- "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"."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 法輪功 /法轮功 (Fǎlún Gōng). "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.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 法輪功
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɑ.lən ɡɔŋ/
- British English: /ˈfɑː.lən ɡɒŋ/
Inflected Forms
Fa-lun kung (alternative)