Fei Tian College "acts as a feeder for Shen Yun". Two schools operate in or around Falun Gong's Dragon Springs compound: Fei Tian College ( traditional Chinese: 飛天大學 simplified Chinese: 飞天大学 pinyin: Fēitiān Dàxué), a private arts college and a middle-high school, the Fei Tian Academy of Arts ( traditional Chinese: 飛天藝術學校 simplified Chinese: 飛天艺术学校 pinyin: Fēitiān Yìshù Xuéxiào). Fei Tian College and Fei Tian Academy of the Arts The compound has been a point of controversy among former residents, who have stated Li Hongzhi maintains tight control over daily life. Sociologist and author Andrew Junker noted that in 2019, near Dragon Springs, in Middletown, was an office for the Falun Gong media extension The Epoch Times, which published a special local edition.
The surrounding communities have many Falun Gong followers. It sits below the Shawangunk Mountains approximately two hours north of Manhattan. The compound is registered as a church, Dragon Springs Buddhist.ĭragon Springs is primarily in Deerpark, New York, near the hamlet of Cuddebackville, north of Port Jervis, in Orange County. Members of Shen Yun live and rehearse in the compound, which also has an orphanage, schools and temples. Falun Gong founder and leader Li Hongzhi lives near the compound, as do hundreds of Falun Gong adherents.
Epoch Media Group denied any involvement, saying it split with Vietnam Epoch Times a year before.Dragon Springs Temple (龍泉寺), also known as The Mountain, is a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) compound in Deerpark, New York, US that serves as the headquarters of the global Falun Gong religious movement and the Shen Yun performance arts troupe. Facebook found BL spent more than $US9 million on ads that reached 55 million accounts.Īlex Kasprak discovered BL was operated from Vietnam by former employees of The Vietnam Epoch Times. In one example, the actress Helen Mirren's image was used as the profile picture of a fake account. The BL, or The Beauty of Life, was posting fake profiles of supposed Trump supporters that were actually stock photos and even artificially generated images. He also points out that "every single advertisement went through Facebook's review process and was approved … before running."įacebook took action again in December, taking down posts from a network that it linked to the Epoch Media Group. "And there is no secret there, since it's all public." "Without exception, these ads are overtly Epoch Times advertisements for our subscriptions," says The Epoch Times' publisher Stephen Gregory. The Epoch Times denied any deception, saying it was obvious they were behind the ads. "That's a clear violation of Facebook's policy." "Essentially they were creating a number of Facebook groups or pages that didn't disclose they were part of the publisher or part of The Epoch Times publishing group," says investigative journalist Alex Kasprak, who works for the fact-checking website Snopes. ( Foreign Correspondent/Background Briefing) The Falun Dafa Association added that it is ultimately a personal choice whether someone seeks medical treatment, but when people have taken up the practice and understood the universal principles behind it, diseases can disappear.īen Hurley was a Falun Gong practitioner for 10 years and worked for the Australian version of The Epoch Times. She says any practitioners who encouraged Colleen to avoid medicine did so based on their "personal interpretations". "Personally, I didn't tell her or pressure her not to take medicine." "Whether she actually continued to take medication or not is her personal choice," she says. Lucy Zhao, president of the Falun Dafa Association of Australia, says Colleen was a friend and claims her health improved after she started practicing Falun Gong. "There's plausible deniability because Li has a range of teachings … that says 'if you're sick, go to the hospital', but then there are always parts of teaching that Master Li can cure all of your illnesses and you just have to believe in him." "In Falun Gong, the teachings are you don't acknowledge illness," says Ben. Colleen May (right) found solace in Falun Gong and gave much of her time to the movement's activities.
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