Original sentence: " David Ownby, Director of the Centre of East Asian studies at the University of Montreal, states that Falun Gong is "by no means a cult.Barend ter Haar argues that Falun Gong "and the state's response to it cannot be understood without reference to the recent  recent history of the People's Republic of China".Brian Edelman and James T.David Ownby has analysed Falun Gong from a historical Chinese perspective as well as commented on his personal experience of meeting modern Falun Gong practitioners.Falun Gong () is a controversial spiritual discipline founded in China by Li Hongzhi () in 1992.James Tong has written about the development of the campaign to repress the practice in Mainland China, and discussed the use of the Communist states' media outlets in its portrayal of Falun Gong as a well-financed organisation.Livia Kohn, Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University and a scholar in Daoism, has praised it as having "a high success rate in creating friendlier people, more harmonious social environments, and greater health and vitality.Ownby has also speculated on Falun Gong as a cultural renewal of ancient Chinese cultivation forms starting in the Ming dynasty.Richardson writing in the Journal of Church and State argue that the cult label applied to Falun Gong has no "empirical verification or general acceptance in the scientific community," and is merely a label that has been conveniently used to ban the practice.Scholars Susan Palmer, David Ownby and anthropologist Noah Porter, have made ethnographic studies of Falun Gong as it is currently transmitted and practiced in the United States.Stephen Chan has written about Falun Gong's relationship to Buddhism and other qigong, as well as commenting on deeper reasons behind the ban in Mainland China.The scholar Benjamin Penny of the Australian National University has given a detailed treatment of Chinese Buddhist publications and has written on Falun Gong
Edited sentence: Falun Gong () is a controversial spiritual discipline founded in China by Li Hongzhi () in 1992.. The Falun Gong is considered a new age spiritual group, its recruitment tactics and controversial profit driven mentality makes the Falun Gong similar to the Church of Sciencetology.In the original Chinese text, the language was often racist, anti-semetic and promoted religious supremacy.When the persecution began in China, the Falan Gong began to expand to the West, where text considered politically insensitive were removed for fear of being demonized abroad