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{{short description|School of Mahayana Buddhism founded in 1988 by Ching Hai.}}
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'''Guanyin Famen''' or '''Quan Yin Buddhism''' (Chinese: 觀音法門), the teachings of '''Meditation Society of ROC'''（Chinese: 中華民國禪定學會) or '''Ching Hai World Society''' (Chinese: 清海世界會). The organization is a school of [[Mahayana]] [[Buddhism]]-like cult found in 1988 by the ethnic-Chinese Vietnamese teacher [[Ching Hai]].<ref>Keven J Obrien [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EPcJ0WLSUhUC&pg=PA189 Popular Protest in China - Page 189]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/563c6b334.html|title=Refworld | China : Treatment of Guanyin Famen practitioners (Kuan Yin Famen, Guanyin Method, Quanyin Famen, Way of the Goddess of Mercy, Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association) (2014-August 2015)|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|last=Refugees|website=Refworld}}</ref>

Out of 20 banned groups on the China Anti-Cult website, Guanyin Method is one of eleven listed as "dangerous".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foref-europe.org/blog/2018/10/15/chinas-blacklist-of-forbidden-religions/|title=CHINA'S BLACKLIST OF FORBIDDEN RELIGIONS - The Chinese Communist Party's War on Religious Liberty|date=October 15, 2018}}</ref>

As such, it has made the leap to cyberspace and become a [[cybersect]].<ref name=thornton08>{{cite web|last=Thornton|first=Patricia M|date=2008|url=https://www.academia.edu/download/34311850/THORNTON_Manufacturing_Dissent.pdf|title=Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China : Boomerang, Backfire, or Spectacle?|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Chinese lists of cults]]

==References==
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[[Category:Buddhist new religious movements]]
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1988]]

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