Guanyin Famen
Guanyin Famen or Quan Yin Buddhism (Chinese: 觀音法門), the teachings of Meditation Society of ROC (Chinese: 中華民國禪定學會) or Ching Hai World Society (Chinese: 清海世界會), is a school of Mahayana Buddhism-like cult found in 1988 by the ethnic-Chinese Vietnamese teacher Ching Hai. Guanyin Famen is one of the religious organizations officially suppressed in the People's Republic of China due to its legal status as a " heterodox teaching" ( zh, s=邪教, p=xiéjiào). This designation was first given to the organization in 1995 and was re-affirmed in 2014 and 2017. The government's 2017 zh, p=xiéjiào, labels=no website listed Guanyin Famen as one of eleven "dangerous" groups, a more serious designation than merely appearing on the list of twenty suppressed groups. As such, it has made the leap to cyberspace and become a kind of cybersect. See also * Heterodox teachings (Chinese law) Heterodox teaching ( zh, s=邪教, p=xiéjiào) is a concept in the l ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]