Falun Gong'' emerged at the end of China's "qigong boom"—a period which saw the proliferation of similar [[practices]] of [[meditation]], slow-moving exercises and regulated [[breathing]]. It differs from other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong qigong] schools in its absence of fees or formal membership, lack of daily [[rituals]] of [[worship]], its greater emphasis on morality, and the theological nature of its teachings. Western academics have described Falun Gong as a qigong discipline, a "spiritual [[movement]]" based on the teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movement]]. | Falun Gong'' emerged at the end of China's "qigong boom"—a period which saw the proliferation of similar [[practices]] of [[meditation]], slow-moving exercises and regulated [[breathing]]. It differs from other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong qigong] schools in its absence of fees or formal membership, lack of daily [[rituals]] of [[worship]], its greater emphasis on morality, and the theological nature of its teachings. Western academics have described Falun Gong as a qigong discipline, a "spiritual [[movement]]" based on the teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movement]]. |