Li Hongzhi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Li Hongzhi
Occupation	Religious Leader
Date Of Birth	May 13, 1951(1951-05-13)
Age	73
Birthplace	Gongzhuling
Country	China
Horoscope	Taurus

Li Hongzhi Biography

Li Hongzhi is one of the most popular and richest Religious Leader who was born on May 13, 1951 in Gongzhuling, China. At the end 1994, a group of disenchanted supporters claimed that the birthdate had been accurate all along and that Li only wanted to align the date with the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. The 13 May 1951 date fell on the 8th of the fourth lunar month, which was the Sakyamuni’s birth anniversary. The Chinese authorities repeated this accusation later. Li dismissed the allegation as a “smear” and stated that he had never claimed to be Sakyamuni. “I am just an ordinary man.” He said, “I am not Jesus, or Sakyamuni, but I am not Sakyamuni, and the Fa has created millions upon millions of Sakyamunis and Jesuses who have courage to follow the path of Truth, who are willing to sacrifice their lives for Truth, and who are willing to dedicate their lives to saving sentient creatures” (Teaching Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa conference, 22 July 2002 Li Hongzhi).

Chinese government records state that Li Hongzhi was either born Li Lai or 7 July 1952. Authorities cited Pan Yufang, an alleged midwife, who claimed that she vividly remembered giving birth to Li in July 1952. Pan claimed that she used oxytocin in order to aid her childbirth. Falun Gong sources later claimed that Pan’s claim that she used oxytocin to assist in the birth weakened her credibility. This was because Li’s parents divorced while he was still a toddler. Li and his siblings stayed with his mother. They moved to Changchun in 1955.

After attaining his middle school diploma in 1970, Li was said to have held “a series of unremarkable jobs”: between 1970 and 1972, Li worked at an army horse farm; from 1972 to 1978, was a trumpet player in a forest police unit in Jilin Province, and subsequently worked as a clerk in the Grain and Oil Procurement company in Changchun. Unnamed former classmates and co-workers cited in government accounts stress repeatedly that Li was unremarkable, that they never saw him practising qigong, and that they had no knowledge of the Buddhist and Daoist Masters Li claimed to have studied under.

A third Master arrived in 1972 from the Great Way School. Zhendaozi (literally, “True Taoist”), came from the Changbai Mountains near the North Korean border. Unlike Li’s other spiritual tutors, the True Taoist wore ordinary attire, and taught Li the way of inner cultivation through Qigong, stressing xinxing (i.e. “mind or heart nature, moral character”). Li’s training in this period mostly took place under cover of night, possibly due to the political environment of the Cultural Revolution.

Li Hongzhi (Chinese Li Hong Zhi; pinyin Li Hongzhi) was born 13 May 1951. He is the spiritual leader and founder of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. This “system of mind–body cultivation” in the Qigong tradition. On 13 May 1992, Li Hongzhi started his public teachings on Falun Gong in Changchun. He then gave lectures and taught Falun Gong exercises throughout China.

Li Hongzhi Net Worth

Li Hongzhi is one of the richest Religious Leader from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Li Hongzhi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Li altered his date of birth from 13 May 1951 to September 1994 in government records. Li claims that his birth date had been incorrectly printed as one of the many bureaucratic errors of Cultural Revolution. He was only correcting it. Although the Chinese government sometimes gave 27 July as his birth date, original government records stated that he was born 7 July 1952.

These biographies claim that Li was born in Gongzhuling (Jilin Province) on 13 May 1951. Zhu Huiguang’s first account stated that Li’s family was poor, and his mother earned only 30 Yuan. This edition describes Li as having a “spirit that can bear hardships and tolerate hard work” while caring for his younger siblings. His second official biography highlighted Li’s average social background and stated that he was from an “ordinary intellectual’s household.

Li is said to have attended primary and middle school in Changchun between 1960 and 1970. As with most school-aged children in China, Li’s formal education was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution. He did not attend high school, but ultimately completed high school through correspondence courses in the 1980s. Chinese government accounts emphasize repeatedly that Li lacks a higher education, and was an undistinguished student, notable only for playing the trumpet.

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In this era, Li developed a positive rapport with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). In 1993, he provided treatment for 100 police officers who had been injured on the job, earning praise from an organization under the MPS. Li gave lectures at the Public Security University in Beijing in 1994, and contributed proceeds from the seminars to a foundation for injured police officers. The publishing ceremony for Li’s book, Zhuan Falun, was held in the auditorium of the Ministry of Public Security in January 1995.

Facts & Trivia

Li Ranked on the list of most popular Religious Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Li Hongzhi celebrates birthday on May 13 of every year.

In 1995, Li declared that he had finished teaching Falun Gong in China, and began spreading the practice abroad. His first stop in March 1995 was to the Chinese embassy in Paris, where he had been invited to teach the practice. This was followed by seminars in Sweden. Between 1995 and 1999, Li gave lectures in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States, Canada. Falun Gong associations and clubs began appearing in Europe, North America and Australia, with activities centered mainly on university campuses.

Is Li Hongzhi a US citizen?

Li Hongzhi moved to the United States in 1996 with his wife and daughter, and in 1998 became a U.S. permanent resident, settling in New York.

Does Falun Gong believe in reincarnation?

Karma and the cycle of rebirth Falun Gong teaches that the spirit is locked in the cycle of rebirth , also known as samsara due to the accumulation of karma.

Who is the leader of Falun Gong?

Li Hongzhi , (born July 7, 1952, Jilin province, China), Chinese-born founder and leader of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that won a wide following in China and elsewhere but was eventually condemned as a “heretical cult” by Chinese government officials.

What is the goal of Falun Gong?

Falun Gong aspires to enable the practitioner to ascend spiritually through moral rectitude and the practice of a set of exercises and meditation. The three stated tenets of the belief are Truthfulness (真, Zhēn), Compassion (善, Shàn), and Forbearance (忍, Rěn).

When did Falun Gong start?

Falun Gong was publicly founded in the Spring of 1992, toward the end of China’s “qigong boom,” a period which saw the proliferation of thousands of disciplines.