Qigong 'master' investigated over claims he healed 50,000
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A Chinese qigong "master" is being investigated by health authorities in the eastern province of Jiangxi over claims he healed more than 50,000 people.
Officials in Luxi County told The Beijing News that Wang Li, 61, didn't have a medical license or qualifications to treat patients.
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Wang Lin [File photo] |
And today, a court is to start hearing a case where one of his students accuses him of fraud.
Zou Yong, a mining businessman in Jiangxi, says Wang cheated him out of more than 7.7 million yuan (US$1.25 million) for tuition.
Zou told the Legal Evening News that he was one of thousands of students attempting to learn how to obtain Wang's "magic power."
Zou claimed to have paid 7.4 million yuan (US$120,580) for a luxury car Wang had ordered in early 2008, and given him 333,333 yuan in a red envelope, as Wang had instructed, at a ceremony to accept him as a student in December 2009.
Zou said he found none of Wang's mentoring had worked after learning from him for about two years.
Wang's performances won him fame among Chinese movie stars, singers and businesspeople.
His most popular performance was catching snakes out of an empty basin using qigong, a practice of aligning breath, movement and awareness for exercise, healing and meditation.
In an online video, Wang can be seen holding an empty basin while wearing only his underpants.
The "master" orders his audience to burn paper under the basin and then he catches snakes out of it.
Wang claims in the video that he is using his "awareness" that allows him to "catch every second to travel to a mountain thousands of miles away with extremely high speed."
Wang tells his audience: "The paper you burnt is a tiny piece of my soul. I reached a far mountain and on the top of it, I pulled huge stones downwards and discovered deep holes beneath them so I can catch the snakes."
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