History in Photos: Falun Dafa's Early Days in Asia

(Clearwisdom.net) In commemoration of World Falun Dafa Day, this photo series illustrates how Falun Dafa, the peaceful meditation practice with Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance as its guiding principles, has been embraced by people from all walks of life around the world.

Japan

Falun Gong group practice in Japan ( 2000)

Falun Gong group practice at a park in Shizuoka County, Japan (June 2002)

Group practice in Japan (2000)

Korea

Group practice in Korea during World Culture Show (June 2003)

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the exercises on the square of Busan Station during anti-torture exhibition in December (2004)

Group practice near World Peace Gate at Seoul Olympic Park (May 2009)

A thousand Korean Falun Gong practitioners did the exercises near World Peace Gate at Seoul Olympic Park (May 2009)

Hong Kong

Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong hold group practice (2000)

Macao

Group practice in Macao (2006)

Nepal

Falun Dafa in Nepal (2001)

India

Group practice in Pune, India (2004)

An Indian practitioner teaches the Falun Gong exercises at a school (2009)

More than 1,000 students of the Police Training Academy in Delhi learned to practice Falun Gong (April 2009)

Students at SRI K.V. English School learn the first set of Falun Gong exercises (2007)

Teacher and students in the Byreshawara School in Bangalore do the Falun Gong exercises in unison (2008)

1,200 students of a public school for girls in India learn to do the Falun Gong exercises (2006)

India in 2006

Vietnam

Practitioners in Vietnam celebrate World Falun Dafa Day (May 2010)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka in 2004

Philippines

Promoting Falun Dafa in the Philippines (2003)

Burma

Little monks happy to receive Falun Dafa-introduction bookmarks (2007)

Thailand

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises at the Thailand Health Expo (January 2004)

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises at Pattaya Beach (May 2005)

Indonesia

Falun Gong group practice on Bali Island (2006)

200 textile factory workers in Solo, Indonesia practice before work every morning (2004)

Group practice in Indonesia (May 2001)

Muslim women doing the sitting meditation in 2002

Group practice in front of a Mosque in Sumatra (2005)

Morning exercise in Pontianak, Indonesia (2006)

Malaysia

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Group practice in the park in Kuala Lumpur near the Double-Apex Tower--the highest building in the world--to promote Dafa ( 2001)

Falun Gong practitioners do the exercises near the seaside in Port Dickson before the Malaysian Independence Day (2009)

Singapore

Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore hold morning group exercise practice, 1999.

Falun Gong practitioners in sitting meditation during group practice in Singapore, 2000.

Group practice in Singapore (2007)