Falun Dafa group marches in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Bay Ridge Brooklyn not far from the local Chinese community in the area. Falun Gong, (Chinese: “Discipline of the Dharma Wheel”) also spelled Falungong, also called Falun Dafa, controversial Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992. The movement’s sudden prominence in the late 1990s became a concern to the Chinese government, which branded it a “heretical cult.” It is actually a peace loving buddhist spiritual movement.

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