“莊嚴國土，利樂有情”，“愛國愛教，護國利民”。有著光榮傳統(tǒng)的中國佛教界決不容許“法輪功”鬼魅邪火，擾亂各族人民共同創(chuàng)造的難得的社會安寧和大好局面，更難以容忍“法輪功”以佛教名詞裝扮自己，以期更加殘忍地荼毒生靈。
從“法輪功”出籠之日起，中國佛教界就旗幟鮮明地開始了揭批“法輪功”的斗爭，特別是中國佛教界的領(lǐng)袖趙樸初先生早就一針見血地點出“法輪功邪教”，高度重視并推動了佛教界揭批“法輪功”活動的展開。
識破偽善面目 揭開邪教本質(zhì)
1992年，“法輪功”鬼影出現(xiàn)，李洪志以“最高佛法”相標(biāo)榜，肆意歪曲、誣蔑、盜用佛教名詞術(shù)語，其無恥行徑引起了佛教界的注意和強烈不滿，揭批“法輪功”開始在佛教界內(nèi)部進行。
《“法輪功”是披著佛家外衣的邪教魔功》、《評李洪志的兩面派的手法》……1996年，佛教界對“法輪功”的揭露和批判從佛教界內(nèi)部轉(zhuǎn)向公開，一篇篇有力的分析文章，幫助世人擦亮了慧眼。許多佛教界人士憤慨地說，李洪志“何方宵小，竟敢盜我佛教‘法輪’以為其名號，竊我佛祖誕辰以為其‘生日’，篡我佛教術(shù)語名相以充其邪說?！ㄝ喒Α棵科壅E世人，世人遂因談‘法輪’而蒙羞。這是佛教亙古未有的大恥辱，佛法萬劫難容的大邪惡。”
“法輪功”的斑斑劣跡引起了趙樸初的高度警覺。1996年11月，趙樸初在《還“法輪功”本來面目———評李洪志〈轉(zhuǎn)法輪〉及其“法輪功”》文章上批示：佛教界要多刊發(fā)文章，使眾人看穿“法輪功”的真實面目。
1996年11月24日、25日，趙樸初在連續(xù)兩封信中提出，“法輪功”是一個大問題，不僅要從宗教的角度，更要從維護社會安定的角度考慮“法輪功”現(xiàn)象。11月28日，趙樸初提出對“法輪功”問題“組織座談，付之公論”。他廓清了對“法輪功”認識的一些中間態(tài)度，斬釘截鐵地指出：“‘法輪功’是一種邪教?！边@是趙樸初首次明確判定“法輪功”為邪教。
1996年12月7日，趙樸初給中國佛教協(xié)會研究室送去一本《轉(zhuǎn)法輪》，并附了一封長信，信中寫道：“（對‘法輪功’）光是取締還不夠，還須以理摧伏其謬論?！贝藭r，趙樸初先生不僅進一步堅持了“法輪功”是邪教的觀點，而且提出取締“法輪功”組織，深入揭批其荒謬觀點的重要性。
在短短1個月內(nèi)，90歲高齡的趙樸初為了堅持佛教“正知”、“正見”，抵制邪教“法輪功”，在病中寫了1個批示、5封信件。趙樸初高度的社會責(zé)任感和政治敏銳性，深深感染了廣大佛教界人士，使佛教界對“法輪功”的斗爭不斷深入。
揭批走向深入 邪教猙獰畢露
1997年始，佛教界揭批“法輪功”邪教的文章日漸增多，更加鋒利尖銳。
1998年1月，根據(jù)趙樸初先生的意見，中國佛協(xié)召開了針對“法輪功”邪教問題的座談會，佛教界人士和專家學(xué)者對“法輪功”進行了深刻分析，進一步明確了“法輪功”是“附佛外道”，是徹頭徹尾的邪教。在“法輪功”邪風(fēng)日盛之時，這次座談會再一次充分地表明了佛教界誓與李洪志斗爭到底的鮮明態(tài)度和決心。
對“法輪功”的討伐，一浪高過一浪。1998年6月，陳星橋居士編寫的《佛教氣功與“法輪功”》由國家宗教事務(wù)局所屬的宗教文化出版社出版，并登上了國際互聯(lián)網(wǎng)。這本書鮮明地指出：
“法輪功”充滿了虛偽和謬誤，自相矛盾處很多，而李洪志卻大肆貶低、指責(zé)現(xiàn)行的宗教、氣功，片面強調(diào)科學(xué)的局限性和當(dāng)代社會的危機，其目的是想讓人們都去服從他，拜倒在“法輪功”門下。如果任其發(fā)展下去，將會產(chǎn)生四大危害：一、有害于科學(xué)氣功的健康發(fā)展；二、有害于宗教界的團結(jié)和穩(wěn)定；三、有害于我國的改革開放、對外交往；四、有害于人民群眾正常的生產(chǎn)、生活秩序。
這本書在社會上引起強烈反響，特別是使不少“法輪功”練習(xí)者看清了李洪志的原形。這不啻是投向“法輪功”邪教的一枚重磅炸彈，引起李洪志一伙的極度恐慌，將其視為眼中釘、肉中刺。“法輪功”邪教首要分子李昌、葉浩、紀烈武、姚潔等人策劃于密室，聯(lián)名寫信“上告”，并發(fā)動一些“法輪功”練習(xí)者打電話“辯論”、寫信謾罵、無理糾纏……至“法輪功”邪教組織被取締之前，中國佛教協(xié)會和宗教文化出版社共收到責(zé)難、威脅信件600多封。一個“法輪功”邪教頭目甚至揚言，要籌集100萬元，將出版社庫存的這本書全部買走，予以銷毀。
李洪志及其“法輪功”邪教組織骨干分子惶惶不可終日，更加暴露出“法輪功”邪教的真實面孔。
擁護政府決定 呼吁除惡反邪
“我堅決擁護政府關(guān)于處理‘法輪功’非法組織的決定。這個決定是十分必要，非常及時，完全正確的?！薄啊ㄝ喒Α皇欠鸱?，不是正式宗教，也不是真正的氣功，而是一種地地道道的歪理邪說，它與佛教是根本對立的，同國家的宗教信仰自由政策也是根本對立的。對這種歪理邪說，我們宗教界要特別提高警惕，絕不能讓它興妖作怪?！?999年8月1日，趙樸初在病中得知政府果斷處理“法輪功”的消息，十分高興，鮮明地表達了自己的看法。
2000年8月，中國佛教與道教、伊斯蘭教、天主教、基督教五大宗教領(lǐng)袖人物集體出訪美國，介紹中國的宗教信仰自由情況，同時深刻揭露“法輪功”邪教面目。
2001年1月，“法輪功”癡迷者天安門廣場自焚事件激起了中國佛教等宗教界人士的義憤。他們紛紛呼吁政府依法加大打擊“法輪功”邪教的力度，創(chuàng)造一個祥和、安定的社會環(huán)境。
新世紀第一個春天，海內(nèi)外矚目的“兩會”隆重召開。中國佛教協(xié)會副會長釋圣輝代表宗教界在莊嚴神圣的人民大會堂發(fā)言。他說，正信佛教與“法輪功”邪教有天壤之別。一為慈悲喜舍，關(guān)懷眾生；一為戕害生命、危害社會。佛教教人慈悲不殺，邪教誘人縱火焚身。佛教教人知恩報恩，邪教誘人六親不認。佛教教人以社稷為重，邪教教人“挾洋以自重”。不知邪教教主李洪志犯下如此滔天罪行，他自己將如何“消業(yè)”？！
中國佛教協(xié)會向全國佛教界發(fā)出公開信。信中說，應(yīng)繼承樸老遺志，為海潮音，為獅子吼，為金剛怒，積極投身反對“法輪功”邪教的斗爭。
中國佛教協(xié)會還呼吁全國各大宗教，用慈悲之心，感化冥頑，拯救迷者；以正義之舉，除惡反邪，去偽匡正。道教、伊斯蘭教、基督教、天主教的信教群眾紛紛響應(yīng)。
一場“宗教反邪”、深入揭批“法輪功”邪教的活動正在神州大地深入展開。（《人民日報》2001年03月20日第六版）
Never allowing Falun Gong to spread heresies
China Buddhist circle further disclosing and denouncing Falun Gong
What Buddhism advocates is adorning the country and benefiting sentient beings; what Buddhist pursues is loving the country as well as the religion, protecting the country and its people. So China Buddhist circle, firmly sticking to what Buddhism advocates, will not allow the cult Falun Gong to disturb the social stability and harmony which Chinese people have achieved with hard work. In particular China Buddhist circle will not allow Falun Gong to adopt the Buddhist terms in its cult fallacies to deceive and hurt people more cruelly.
Since the day when Falun Gong was just founded, China Buddhist circle has begun to disclose and denounce Falun Gong severely. Mr Zhao Puchu, the leading figure of China Buddhist circle has earlier pointed out that Falun Gong was none other but cult. And he has emphasized the significance of exposing Falun Gong and promoted the attack on Falun Gong.
Seeing through Falun Gong and disclosing its cult nature
In 1992, Falun Gong began to spread its heresies. Li Hongzhi has not only brazenly claimed Falun Gong to be the most profound level of Buddhism and has willfully distorted, libeled and pirated Buddhist terms in his fallacies. Those imprudent actions have aroused great dissatisfaction from China Buddhist circle that immediately started to expose and denounce Falun Gong.
In 1996, China Buddhist circle began to disclose Falun Gong to the outside world. Many profound articles such as "Falun Gong is the cult under the camouflage of Buddhism" and "Comments on Li Hongzhi's two-faced tricks" were openly published to help common people see through Falun Gong. People from China Buddhist circle said with great indignant, "How could Li Hongzhi pirate the Buddhist term 'Wheel of Law' as the name of his cult heresy? How could he take the birthday of the Buddha as his own birthday? How could he adopt the Buddhist terms in his fallacies? Since Falun Gong deceived the public repeatedly, people got quite irritated with the term 'Wheel of Law'. Since Falun Dafa endangered the society time and again, Buddhists even felt ashamed of preaching Buddha Dharma. This is the greatest humiliation for the Buddhism and the greatest malignancy intolerable to Buddha Dharma."
Mr. Zhao Puchu was on alert against Falun Gong's vicious actions. In November 1996, Mr. Zhao wrote an instruction on the article "Disclosing Falun Gong's cult nature-- comments on Li Hongzhi's ‘Zhuan Falun' and his Falun Gong" that China Buddhist circle should write and publish more articles to help people see through Falun Gong clearly.
On November 24 and 25, 1996, Mr. Zhao Puchu pointed out in two letters successively that the exposure of Falun Gong was of great urgency and importance and China Buddhist circle should denounce Falun Gong from the perspective of protecting the upright religion as well as maintaining social stability. On November 28, Mr. Zhao Puchu proposed that seminars should be held to collect more ideas about how to denounce Falun Gong. He criticized some people's neutral attitude toward Falun Gong and remarked firmly, "Falun Gong is the cult." This is the first time that Mr. Zhao Puchu clearly and openly declared Falun Gong to be the cult.
On December 7, 1996, Mr Zhao Puchu sent a copy of "Zhuan Falun" to the Buddhist Association of China and in the long letter attached to the book he wrote, "It is not enough to ban on the cult, efforts should also be made to reveal and pull down its fallacies so that our fight against the cult may work." So Mr. Zhao Puchu not only insisted that Falun Gong was the cult but also put forward that it was vital to outlaw Falun Gong and expose deeply its heresies.
Just within a month, in order to clarify Buddhism's upright ideas and thoughts, Mr Zhao Puchu of 90 years old, in spite of his illness, had written one instruction and five letters to denounce the cult Falun Gong. Mr. Zhao's highly social responsibility and political insight have greatly impressed China Buddhist circle and pushed them to carry out stronger attack against Falun Gong.
Thorough exposure of Falun Gong made more know Falun Gong's evil features
Since 1997, China Buddhist circle has published more articles with sharper and keener ideas to denounce Falun Gong.
In January 1998, based on Mr Zhao Puchu's proposal, Buddhist Association of China held a seminar aiming at the cult Falun Gong. Scholars and experts from Buddhist circle and other fields made a deep analysis of Falun Gong and further denounced Falun Gong as a cult attached to Buddhism. At that time Falun Gong went rampant and spread fast, so this seminar adequately revealed that China Buddhist circle would go on with fighting against Falun Gong firmly and bravely.
The disclosure and denouncement of Falun Gong have been on a larger scale. In June 1998, "Qigong of Buddhism and Falun Gong" edited by Chen Xingqiao was published by the Religious Culture Publishing House attached to the National Religious Affairs Bureau and appeared on Internet very soon. The book pointed out sharply that Falun Gong was full of fallacies and self-contradictions. And Li Hongzhi debased and denounced the existing religions and Qigong without restraint. Li Hongzhi exaggerated some limitations of science and certain crises in modern society just for the purpose of fooling and bewitching people. If we do nothing about Falun Gong, Falun Gong would surely endanger our life mainly in the following four aspects. First it would deter the healthy development of the science and Qigong. Second, it would disturb the solidarity and stability of Buddhist circle of China. Third it would negatively influence our country's reforms and opening to the outside world and Chinese people's communications with foreign countries. Fourth it would prevent people from having normal work and life.
The book has met great responses from the society, and it especially helped many Falun Gong practitioners find out Li Hongzhi's true colors. So the book was really a huge bomb cast on the cult Falun Gong. But Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong, deeply panicked, hated the book very much. The leading figures of Falun Gong such as Li Chang, Ye Hao, Jie liewu and Yao Jie masterminded some activities to oppose the book. They wrote letters to certain authorities, instigated some Falun Gong practitioners to debate with the author or editors by phone call and write letters to denounce the book and defend Falun Gong. Until Chinese government outlawed the cult Falun Gong, the Buddhist Association of China and the Religious Culture Publishing House have received more than 600 letters of this kind. A leading figure of Falun Gong even threatened that he would raise 1 million Yuan to buy all the copies of this book stocked in the Religious Culture Publishing House and then burn them all.
All these activities only revealed clearly that Li Hongzhi and other Falun Gong leading members were always in a state of anxiety and fear, and Falun Gong was just the cult.
Supporting our Government's decision and calling on more to join the anti-cult war
On August 1, 1999, Mr. Zhao Puchu, being informed that our government has officially outlawed Falun Gong, felt excited and remarked, "I fully support our government's decision about Falun Gong. This decision is necessary, timely and totally correct." "Falun Gong does not belong to Fofa nor religion or Qigong. It is an arrant heresy. It is opposite to Buddhism and our country's policy about freedom to believe in religions. So China Buddhist circle should be highly on guard against the cult Falun Gong and never allow it to spread in the society."
In August 2000, China Buddhist leading figures together with the leading figures from China's Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity paid a visit to America. They have introduced China's situation in which all people enjoy the freedom to believe in any religions. At the same time they also deeply exposed the cult nature of Falun Gong.
In January 2001, the issue of some Falun Gong diehards setting themselves on fire on the Tiananmen Square has aroused great indignation of people from China religious Circle. They all appealed to the government that the cult Falun Gong should be denounced and attacked hard so as to create the harmonious and stable social environment.
In the first spring of the new century, China's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference were held ceremoniously. Vice chairman of the Buddhist Association of China made a speech on behalf of China religious circle. He said that upright Buddhism was totally different from the cult Falun Gong. Buddhism help to make people wise while cults ruin their wisdom; Buddhism instruct people to be merciful and not to kill while cults entice others to have self-immolation; Buddhism instruct people to reward others for their kindness while cults guide people to be merciless; Buddhism instruct people to love their motherland while cults instigate people to betray their native country. While retribution will certainly come, we just wonder how the cult founder Li Hongzhi can diminish his Karma since he has committed such monstrous crimes.
The Buddhist Association of China issued an open letter to the whole Buddhist circle in China. It read that the Buddhist disciples should carry on Mr. Zhao's unfulfilled wish and fight against the cult Falun Gong vigorously and actively by clarifying to the public the differences between upright religion and cult, revealing the harm of the cult Falun Gong to the nation.
The Buddhism Association of China also calls on the five major religions in China to actively participate in such an anti-cult campaign so as to influence the diehards and save the fanatics with our mercy and carry forward the upright religions while eradicating the cults with our righteous actions. Disciples from Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity all welcomed this call and made favorable responses.
The large-scale anti-cult campaign has developed from China Buddhist circle to the whole China. All make it the duty to further disclose and denounce the cult Falun Gong.
(People's Daily, sixth edition, March 20, 2001)