Zhuan falun is the central text of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), a Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992. Falun Dafa, meaning “the great way of the dharma wheel” was originally a form of qigong, “the discipline of the vital breath,” and emerged in the context of the qigong boom of the 1980s and 1990s. In this mass movement, hundreds of millions of Chinese practiced a wide variety of qigong cultivation techniques to improve their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. The qigong boom has been likened to a new religious movement by some Western scholars.