With utmost respect, I would like to correct Time Traveller on one of his statements above. He said, "buddhist china under communism has killed THOUSANDS OF falung gong supporters...." China is not a buddhist nation. Some dynasties, back centuries ago, might have made Buddhism a national religion, but China as we know it, which persecutes Faulun Gong practitioners is NOT Buddhist. And that is not my opinion, it is a fact. Communist China is secular and actually leans more towards atheism. Communist Chinese have the tradition of following confucionism and taoism, but not Buddhism as we know it. Au contraire, China has been known to be anti-Buddhist, as blatantly displayed by the decades of massacre of Buddhist Tibetans, plus demolition and desecration of Buddhist monasteries.