(Clearwisdom.net) On December 5, 2004, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) revealed the 100 most popular books of the year in Australia. Mr. Li Hongzhi's book, Zhuan Falun, the number-one selling book of 1996 in Beijing, China, landed the number 14 spot on the chart. While the rest of the books on the chart were written by Western authors, Zhuan Falun is the only book written by an Asian author.

The list of the 100 most popular books in Australia is determined by a variety of different polls, including telephone surveys, cellular phone text message surveys, and a public poll on ABC's website.

Zhuan Falun is the main study text of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. So far, it has been published in more than thirty languages, including traditional Chinese, Mainland Chinese, English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesian, Hindi, Danish, Burmese, Tibetan, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Romanian, Slovakian, Albanian, and many other languages.

Since Jiang Zemin's regime started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, people around the world have become all the more interested in Falun Gong. Today, people from more than sixty countries practice Falun Gong, and people continue to be attracted to Falun Gong. At the beginning of the persecution, Zhuan Falun and an introductory book, Falun Gong, were available only in several of the most popular languages in the world. Now, Falun Gong's books are available in more than thirty languages, including Slovakian, Hebrew, Indonesian and Hindi. All of the Falun Gong books are available on the Internet for free downloading at http://www.falundafa.org.

Posting date: 1/23/2005
Original article date: 1/22/2005
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Translated on 1/18/2005
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/1/1/92596.html

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