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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.
Conscience, Love, and the Brave Road to Uphold Justice
Tai Ji Men’s heart Kung Fu inspires both the global promotion of peace, love, and conscience, and the fight for tax and legal reform in Taiwan.
Facing Uncertain Times: Pursuing Peace and Justice with Love and Conscience
Tai Ji Men dizi promote a culture of conscience, love, and peace throughout the world. They also ask for tax oppression against them to cease.
From Bordeaux to Taipei: Tai Ji Men and the Pursuit of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
Both Scientology’s resilience to French anti-cult laws and campaigns and Tai Ji Men’s strength in front of tax and media harassment prove that public slander can be successfully resisted.
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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