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The South China Morning Post called his flight a "body blow" to Beijing, which recognized his enthronement as a living Buddha in 1992 and was suspected of wanting to manipulate him to drive a wedge between his sect and the dominant Gelugpa sect of the Dalai Lama.
The first phylogenetic treatment [ 44 ] recognized four sections within a broadly defined Artemisia s.l . with sect.
Another WP front-pager reports that China has arrested over 4,000 Beijing residents in its efforts to suppress the Falun Gong sect, making this the largest government crackdown since the days of the Tiananmen Square uprising.
Denying rumors of an imminent crackdown, Chinese officials told representatives of the sect that as long as they stick to group breathing and meditation exercises in public parks they face no repression.
The WP , NYT , LAT and Wall Street Journal report that China has issued an arrest warrant for Li Hongzhi, the New York-based leader of the now-banned sect Falun Gong, charging him with the deaths of hundreds of his followers.