Practice Tradition
Falun Gong
Religious movement originating in China
- Also called Fǎlún Dàfǎ, Dharma Wheel Practice, Falun-Kung
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
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Figures · 1
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
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Connections
How Falun Gong connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 2
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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