Dr Pang – XiAn Center

Doctor Pang is the creator of Zhineng Science. He was born in Ding Xing Town, Hebei Province, China. He is an esteemed qigong scientist and medical doctor. He has held a leadership position in the Chinese Qigong Science Association and was President of its Zhineng Branch. He was Honorary President of the Beijing Qigong Associations well as Director and Secretary of Huaxia Zhineng Training and Healing Centers, and of its Scientific Research Department.

Dr Pang has great depth of knowledge and works with rigor, precision and pragmatism. He is the founder of qigong science.

In his youth Dr Pang learned and was nourished by qigong, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the martial arts. Later he studied Western medicine in Beijing while also learning traditional Chinese medicine. After graduation he worked in Beijing in a clinic that combined Western medicine and TCM. At the end of the 1950s Dr Pang began researching Buddhism: reading Buddhist classics, following high-level Buddhist masters and practicing Buddhist qigong. In the 1960s he mainly focused on the martial arts, while in the 1970s he practiced Daoist qigong. He studied with nineteen qigong and martial arts high-level masters.

Through the 1970s he focussed on improving his qigong science level, while at the same time he joined several qigong organizations and promoted their activities. At the beginning of the 1980s Dr Pang reformed traditional Chinese qigong and created Zhineng, introducing its theory and methods to the public. In the spring of 1981 he taught the first national training class on sending external qi for healing, organized by the Beijing Qigong Association. At this time he also cooperated with scientists to carry out many scientific experiments to prove external qi exists as a substance. This opened a new era for qigong.

At the end of 1984 Dr Pang began using a qi field for treatment, then in 1986 introduced qi field healing methods more widely. Creating a qi field took external qi techniques to a new level. At the same time he began lecturing on hunyuan qi theory, consciousness theory, daode theory and the theories underlying qi field creation and external qi treatment. Soon afterwards he gave scientific explanations for hallucinations, and about the phenomenon that occurs at a certain level of qigong practice, when yishi produces both true and false results that mix together in conflict. This created a sound foundation for Zhineng science to develop along the right lines and made a huge contribution to qigong science generally.

In the early 1990s Dr Pang gave lectures and detailed in Hunyuan Entirety Theory his theory on the three aspects of matter: physical matter, energy and information. Realising that qigong scientific research was needed for Zhineng to develop to a scientific level, he encouraged Zhineng practitioners throughout China to carry out external qi experiments. A symposium was held at Huaxia in each of the six years 1992 to 1997. There were 4,224 study papers presented, covering agriculture, medicine, industry, forestry, fishing, education, etc. During this time Dr Pang established a scientific research department at Huaxia and held classes for scientists and experts from all over China. In 1996 Huaxia began to carry out experiments on changing hunyuanqi into light, electricity, magnetism, heat, and so on.

Although busy with qigong activities in the early 1990s, Dr Pang also published a series of Zhineng books:Essential Elements of Qigong,Textbook of Zhineng Dynamic Science, Concise Zhineng Science, Outline of Zhineng Science, Hunyuan Entirety Theory – The Foundation of Zhineng Science, The Essence of Zhineng Science, The Methods of Zhineng Science, Paranormal Abilities – Zhineng Science Techniques, Overview of Traditional Qigong, History of Qigong Development in China, Qigong and Human Culture, etc. – a total of about six million Chinese characters. In 2012 he published Summary of Zen Buddhist Theories and Methods and in 2015 Summary of Inner Cultivation in Confucianism.

Dr Pang established Huaxia Zhineng Centre in 1988. It later developed into a training centre, healing centres and a scientific research department. In 1998, 600 people worked at Huaxia. More than 310,000 students studied in the centre over that ten-year period, including 2000 foreign students. From 1992 to 1998 an average of 4000 students attended the centre each month, with a peak number of 7100. Usual classes were the Instructors’ Training Classes (24 days), Teacher Training Class (3 months), Qigong Healer Class (3 months) and the Two Year Teacher Training Class.

Dr Pang lectured about qigong science in around thirty provinces in China. He was also invited to give lectures and teach qigong in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Based on hunyuan entirety theory, Teacher Pang created systematic methods that were simple, easy to learn, safe, highly effective and in accord with the laws of human life activity. In May 1997 the Chinese Ministry of Sports and Health published a book on Chinese physical methods for good health, rating Zhineng as the most effective.

Although the leader of Huaxia Center and the founder of Zhineng, Dr Pang never promoted himself. He always treated all teachers and students as equals, and saw himself as a qigong science worker. He repeatedly emphasized the importance of avoiding individual glorification. He became a model for new kinds of relationships in qigong organizations. He lived very simply, stayed an upright person and worked rigorously and diligently.