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.[1][2]

Supreme Master Ching Hai in Sydney, Australia in 1993.

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" (Chinese: 邪教; pinyin: xiéjiào).[3] This designation was first given to the organization in 1995 and was re-affirmed in 2014 and 2017. The government's 2017 xiéjiào website listed Guanyin Famen as one of eleven "dangerous" groups, a more serious designation than merely appearing on the list of twenty suppressed groups.[4]

As such, it has made the leap to cyberspace and become a kind of cybersect.[5]

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References
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  1. Keven J Obrien Popular Protest in China - Page 189
  2. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | China : Treatment of Guanyin Famen practitioners (Kuan Yin Famen, Guanyin Method, Quanyin Famen, Way of the Goddess of Mercy, Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association) (2014-August 2015)". Refworld.
  3. Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China. 公安部关于认定和取缔邪教组织若干问题的通知  [Notice of the Ministry of Public Security on Several Issues Concerning the Identification and Banning of Cult Organizations] (in Chinese) – via Wikisource.
  4. Irons, Edward A. (2018). "The List: The Evolution of China's List of Illegal and Evil Cults" (PDF). The Journal of CESNUR. 2 (1): 33–57. doi:10.26338/tjoc.2018.2.1.3.
  5. Thornton, Patricia M (2008). "Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China : Boomerang, Backfire, or Spectacle?" (PDF). Harvard University Press.


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