LATEST ARTICLES
North Macedonia: The Tai Ji Men Case at the Second World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
Scholars and Tai Ji Men dizi spoke at the most important yearly religious studies gathering in the Balkans.
León 1188: The First Parliament, Taxes, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Taxpayers’ rights are not just one among many matters Parliaments should control. They are the historical reasons why Parliaments were created.
Religions, Beliefs, and Legal Norms: The Tai Ji Men case
Religious liberty problems have a long history in Taiwan and continued well after the Martial Law era. Some persist even today.
The Master-Disciple Relationship and the Primacy of Conscience in a Menpai in Taiwan: The Case of Tai Ji Men
Understanding the relationship between Shifu (Grand Master) and dizi (disciple) is essential to appreciate what Tai Ji Men is and does.
Conscience, Religious Transcendence and Persecution: A Secular Paradigm in an Ancient Menpai
How Tai Ji Men dizi (disciples) dealt with persecution and tax harassment and emphasized their core values, rooted in the primacy of conscience.
Religious and Spiritual Movements’ Contributions to Society and Taxes:The Peculiar Case of Tai Ji Men
Spiritual groups that contribute to the common good should be tax-exempt. This is obvious in Poland and democratic countries in general but was not immediately acknowledged in the Tai Ji Men case.
Peace, Love, and Tax Reform: Tai Ji Men at the CESNUR Conference in Bordeaux
Some scholars discovered the Tai Ji Men case for the first time. Others reinforced their commitment to support the dizi’s (disciples) fight for justice.
Tai Ji Men’s Struggle and Challenges for Freedom of Belief in Taiwan and Internationally
By fighting for justice in their paradigmatic case, Tai Ji Men dizi (disciples) also fight for the freedom of many other persecuted spiritual movements.
Qigong, False Accusations, and Unjust Detention: The Story of My Father
My father was one of the two dizi (disciples) detained in 1996 with the leader of Tai Ji Men and his wife. Courts eventually acknowledged he was innocent.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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