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Beijing

The White Cloud Temple, and the demonstration that ended the qigong boom.

Courtyard and halls of the White Cloud Temple in Beijing, with incense burners and tiled roofs.
Baiyunguan, the White Cloud Temple in Beijing: the centre of the Longmen branch of Quanzhen, and where Qiu Chuji is buried. Laika ac from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Beijing carries two threads of this story. The White Cloud Temple, Baiyunguan, is the centre of the Longmen branch of Quanzhen and holds Qiu Chuji's tomb — the institutional home of the neigong tradition Mo Pai's methods most resemble.

And in April 1999 some ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners assembled outside the leadership compound in the same city, which is the moment the qigong boom of the previous two decades came to an end.

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