Dr. Pang Ming

Dr. Pang Ming (born Sept. 1940) is the founder of Zhineng Qigong. From the age of 6 years, he practised Qigong, T’ai Chi and Martial Arts with 19 different grandmasters. In 1958, he graduated from Beijing Medical University and started working as a doctor. From 1958 until 1962, he studied traditional Chinese Medicine, specialising in acupuncture. After that he started his profound Qigong research. He studied first Buddhist Qigong and after 1964, he studied martial arts more intensively. He researched several Daoist and Buddhist texts and linked them to Qigong, using his Western and Chinese medical background.

In the early eighties, Dr. Pang Ming created Zhineng Qigong. This form is simple and incredibly effective. In November 1991, he founded the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong training Centre in Qinhuangdao. Between 1992 and 1995, he also founded the Hebei Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Research and Recovery Centre. Over 300.000 patients (Dr. Pang Ming called them students) visited the centre to work on their health. All patients were first medically tested and diagnosed, then put on an intensive training for a month after which the tests were repeated once more. The successrate was over 95%. More than 3000 scientific reports about Zhineng have been published in China and in 1998 Dr. Pang Ming was the first person to receive a certificate of appreciation from the department of sports and health  of the Chinese government. Of the eleven Qigong forms that have been researched, Zhineng Qigong is recognised as the best for healing.

Dr. Pang Ming has published nine books on Qigong. Not only did he create Zhineng Qigong, he also developed the Holistic Hunyuan Principle using the Qi field (morphogenetic field, collective consciousness, Zero-Point field) to teach Qigong and to treat patients.

In May 1998, Patricia van Walstijn travelled to China where she has been training in the Zhineng training centre in Beidahe. During this trip, she visited the Huaxia Zhineng Centre, where she met Dr. Pang Ming. Deeply impressed by Dr. Pang Ming and Zhineng Qigong, she decided to bring these teachings to Europe and founded the Chi Neng Institute Europe.

In 2001, the Centre in China was closed due to problems the government had with Falun Gong. All forms of Qigong that gathered more than 50 persons were banned. In the Zhineng Centre, thousands of people gathered and because of the fact that no exceptions were made, the Centre had to close. Dr. Pang Ming is now retired and has stopped teaching. Meanwhile there are many Zhineng instructors spread over the world, each with his own interpretation of Dr. Pang Ming’s work.