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From the Bazaar of Charity Disaster to the Tai Ji Men Case
The 1897 fire that destroyed the “Bazar de la Charité” was one of the saddest tragedies in European history. It still has something to teach us.
Tai Ji Men and Religious Persecution
Can what is happening today to Tai Ji Men be called “persecution”? Yes, according to the most recent definitions.
Energy, Development, Freedom, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Youth is a wellspring of energy. Education should give this energy a direction without repressing it. The Tai Ji Men dizi prove that this is possible.
Lansquenets and Tai Ji Men: Who Stole Their Youth?
An Italian summer controversy opens a window on how politeness and high ideals can be proposed to young women and men.
The True Spirit of Transitional Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
The remote origins of transitional justice are in the distinction between vengeance and justice, as taught by wise men such as Emperor Wen of Han and Cesare Beccaria.
Tai Ji Men: Qigong, Conscience, and Freedom
Teachings about universal life energy (Chinese “Ch’i” or Japanese “Ki”) are attacked today as “cultic deviances.” They are in fact a great gift to humanity.
Tai Ji Men: Defending Conscience Against Its Enemies
We live in a historical time when ideologies regard conscience as something suspect. Dr. Hong’s apology for conscience offers the best defense against the ideologues.
Tai Ji Men: Victims No More—An International Webinar
The Tai Ji Men case was discussed on UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.
Tai Ji Men Promote Global Peace at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religion in Chicago
From the pre-Parliament “Parade of Faiths” to their Global Prayer for World Peace, it was impossible not to notice the large and smiling contingent of Tai Ji Men dizi.
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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