The international group, known internationally as Bodhi Meditation, may now have more practitioners abroad, but is still active in China despite a long repression.
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Yang Taoming: “China’s Tony Robbins” Detained
The #1 Chinese life coach has been arrested and accused of fraud. His company sued the media that had accused him of “brainwashing.”
Zhejiang Party Leader Punished for Seeking Promotion Through Feng Shui
Tao Chenghua was the most powerful CCP bureaucrat in the city of Jinhua. He lost everything, and has now confessed this was because of his “superstitious” beliefs.
Huangtian Jiao: Taoist Popular Sect Under Persecution
The syncretic group has been repeatedly repressed, but never eradicated, during its almost five centuries of history. Now, he is persecuted again.
UFO Beliefs Growing (and Increasingly Repressed) in China
Millions of young Chinese follow contactees who claim to receive messages from the aliens. Some end up in jail.
Guan Yin Citta: Leader Dies, Crackdown on Buddhist Movement Continues
In 2019, Bitter Winter revealed a secret plan to eradicate the group, whose leader died on November 10, in China. It did not succeed.
China Moves to Crack Down on Origin Point Medicine
The Taiwan-based group is being denounced by the Chinese Communist Party media and investigated by the police as a xie jiao.
Create Abundance/Spiritual Growth: Xie Jiao or Spy Ring?
Several CCP media attacked a movement that in Canada, in connection with a mysterious murder, had come under suspicion of being a CCP front.
Legacy: Lifespring Offshoot in Trouble in China
Death of a venture capitalist in Beijing after a Legacy course evidences the CCP’s idiosyncratic approach to the question of the xie jiao
Historical Buddhist Temple Closed in Jiangxi
Not even the fact that it once hosted CCP General Luo Binghui has saved Tianci Ancient Temple in Ji’an.
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