The group, it turned out, was led by an exiled patriarch, Li Hongzhi, who had conjured his cult out of traditional Chinese breathing exercises (qigong), a belief in miracle cures, nostrums about clean living, and a mish-mash of Buddhist and Taoist mysticism.
Resultó que el grupo estaba encabezado por un patriarca exilado, Li Hongzhi, quien inventó la secta con base en ejercicios respiratorios tradicionales chinos (qigong), la creencia en curas milagrosas, panaceas y una mescolanza de misticismo budista y taoísta.