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9787540102463 - Shaolin Kung-fu - AbeBooks Skip to main contentThe Shaolin Arts. 1.1 Chinese martial arts before ShaolinShaolin Gong-Fu and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Draeger and Png Chye Khim, both master martial artists and Shaolin experts, focus on the Lohan techniquebelieved to have developed from a form devised at the legendary Shaolin Temple some 1,500 years ago. Shaolin Kung Fu is prized for its elegant style, effectiveness as a fighting system and as an exercise that benefits both body and mind.

Since Chinese monasteries were large landed estates, sources of considerable regular income, monks required protection. For example, the Chinese martial art of wrestling, Shuai Jiao, predates the establishment of Shaolin temple by several centuries. 1.3 Sui and Tang dynasties (581вЂ“907 AD): Shaolin soldier monksHistory Chinese martial arts before Shaolin Chinese historical records, like Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, the Bibliographies in the Book of the Han Dynasty, the Records of the Grand Historian, and other sources document the existence of martial arts in China for thousands of years. 1.2 Southern and Northern dynasties (420вЂ“589 AD) This book introduces Shaolin Kung Fu, Taijiquan, Qigong and Zen Buddhism, and the various styles in these respective arts and training methods.genie operators training participants, in these words yaoi manga guilt pleasure, secrets kung fu complete fundamentals shaolin, evoluzione modelli processi. The publication of these questions and answers will prove invaluable to everyone who is interested in the Shaolin Arts.

The first monk who preached Buddhism there was the Indian monk named Buddhabhadra ( дЅ›й™Ђи·‹й™ЂзЅ— FГіtuГіbГЎtuГіluГі), simply called Batuo ( и·‹й™Ђ) by the Chinese. In Japan, he is known as Daruma.In 495 AD, Shaolin temple was built among the Song mountains in Henan province. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin kung fu. This is, however, a misconception, but shows the historical importance of Shaolin kung fu.Southern and Northern dynasties (420вЂ“589 AD) Shaolin temple established Bodhidharma is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. In 1784 the Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods made the earliest extant reference to the Shaolin Monastery as Chinese boxing's place of origin.

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This is when a Taoist with the pen name 'Purple Coagulation Man of the Way' wrote the Sinews Changing Classic in 1624, but claimed to have discovered it. Bodhidharma's influence Some popular historians consider Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Chinese Buddhism to have had a major influence on Shaolin Kung Fu.The idea of Bodhidharma influencing Shaolin boxing is based on a qigong manual written during the 17th century. There are hints that these first three Chinese Shaolin monks, Huiguang, Sengchou, and Huike, may have been military men before entering the monastic life. His Chinese disciple, Huike ( ж…§еЏЇ), was also a highly trained martial arts expert. After Buddhabadra, the monk Bodhidharma ( иЏ©жЏђиѕѕж‘© PГєtГdГЎmГі), described as either Central Asian or South Asian (Indian) and simply called Damo ( иѕѕж‘©) by the Chinese, came to Shaolin in 527 AD. For example, Sengchou's skill with the tin staff is even documented in the Chinese Buddhist canon.

Wang Shichong declared himself Emperor. The oldest evidence of Shaolin participation in combat is a stele from 728 that attests to two occasions: a defense of the monastery from bandits around 610 and their role in the defeat of Wang Shichong at the Battle of Hulao in 621. Shaolin monks had developed very powerful martial skills, and this showed itself towards the end of the Sui dynasty.Like most dynastic changes, the end of the Sui Dynasty was a time of upheaval and contention for the throne. The 18 methods of Luohan with a strong Buddhist flavour were practiced by Shaolin monks since this time, which was later used to create more advanced Shaolin martial arts. The scholar Ling Tinkang (1757вЂ“1809) described the author as an 'ignorant village master.' :вЂЉp168 Sui and Tang dynasties (581вЂ“907 AD): Shaolin soldier monks During the short period of the Sui dynasty (581вЂ“618), the building blocks of Shaolin kung fu took an official form, and Shaolin monks began to create fighting systems of their own. Literati as far back as the Qing Dynasty have taken note of these mistakes.

According to Meir Shahar, this is explained by a confluence of the late Ming fashion for military encyclopedias and, more importantly, the conscription of civilian irregulars, including monks, as a result of Ming military decline in the 16th century. Nor do any other sources from the Tang, Song and Yuan periods allude to military training at the temple. Thereafter Shaolin enjoyed the royal patronage of the Tang.Though the Shaolin Monastery Stele of 728 attests to these incidents in 610 and 621 when the monks engaged in combat, it does not allude to martial training in the monastery, or to any fighting technique in which its monks specialized.

YГє returned to the south with two monks, Zongqing and Pucong, whom he taught the use of the staff over the next three years, after which Zongqing and Pucong returned to Shaolin Monastery and taught their brother monks what they had learned. By the mid-16th century military experts from all over Ming China were travelling to Shaolin to study its fighting techniques.Around 1560 YГє DГ yГіu travelled to Shaolin Monastery to see for himself its monks' fighting techniques, but found them disappointing. These sources, in contrast to those from the Tang Dynasty period, refer to Shaolin methods of combat unarmed, with the spear, and with the weapon that was the forte of the Shaolin monks and for which they had become famous, the staff. References to Shaolin martial arts appear in various literary genres of the late Ming:The epitaphs of Shaolin warrior monks, martial-arts manuals, military encyclopedias, historical writings, travelogues, fiction, and even poetry. Ming dynasty (1368вЂ“1644) From the 8th to the 15th centuries, no extant source documents Shaolin participation in combat then the 16th and 17th centuries see at least forty extant sources attest that, not only did monks of Shaolin practice martial arts, but martial practice had become such an integral element of Shaolin monastic life that the monks felt the need to justify it by creating new Buddhist lore.

The monks won their greatest victory at Wengjiagang. The monks suffered their greatest defeat at Taozhai, where four of them fell in battle their remains were buried under the StЕ«pa of the Four Heroic Monks ( Si yi seng ta) at Mount She near Shanghai. Warrior monks participated in at least four battles: at the Gulf of Hangzhou in spring 1553 and in the Huangpu River delta at Wengjiagang in July 1553, Majiabang in spring 1554, and Taozhai in autumn 1555. Pirates From the 1540s to the 1560s, pirates known as wokou raided China's eastern and southeastern coasts on an unprecedented scale.The geographer Zheng Ruoceng provides the most detailed of the 16th-century sources which confirm that, in 1553, Wan Biao, Vice Commissioner in Chief of the Nanjing Chief Military Commission, initiated the conscription of monksвЂ”including some from ShaolinвЂ”against the pirates. The earliest extant manual on Shaolin kung fu, the Exposition of the Original Shaolin Staff Method was written in around 1610 and published in 1621 from what its author ChГ©ng ZЕЌngyГіu learned during a more than ten-year stay at the monastery.Conditions of lawlessness in HenanвЂ”where the Shaolin Monastery is locatedвЂ”and surrounding provinces during the late Ming Dynasty and all of the Qing Dynasty contributed to the development of martial arts.Meir Shahar lists the martial arts T'ai chi ch'uan, Chang Family Boxing, BДЃguГ quГЎn, XГngyГ¬quГЎn and Bajiquan as originating from this region and this time period.

Not all of the monks who fought at Wengjiagang were from Shaolin, and rivalries developed among them. The pirates suffered over one hundred casualties and the monks only four.