Monks from the Shaolin Temple perform kung fu at the United Nations headquarters during the 2013 Shaolin Temple Cultural Festival. Hu Haidan / China Daily Shi Yongxin, the 30th-generation abbot of the ...

S H A O L I N, China, March 26 -- The warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple have been perfecting and passing on their martial arts skills for 15 centuries. But not even the wisest of monks could have ...

A participant demonstrates Kung Fu during the 2023 African Shaolin Kungfu Games held at the Shaolin Cultural center in Lusaka, Zambia, June 25, 2023. The Shaolin Temple in Zambia has organized the ...

A global gathering of kung fu masters, not for combat but in the spirit of friendship and unity, took place at the Shaolin Temple - the cradle of Shaolin martial arts. The 2024 Shaolin Games Finals ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the ...

Shaolin Temple, jointly with several places of interest in the historic Mt. Songshan in Dengfeng, Henan Province in Central China, was recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as Tian Di ...

Prior to moving to San Diego, Dr. Craig D. Reid was a freelance entertainment writer in Los Angeles for Reuters. He is currently completing The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s for ...

Everyone with an interest in martial arts films has heard of the Shaolin Monastery on Songshan mountain near the former Chinese imperial capital of Luoyang in Henan province. According to film critic ...

Shaolin kung fu is considered the largest school in Chinese martial arts. It contains hundreds of extant styles including barehanded and armed techniques, each boasting routines that promise to ...

Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

Kung Fu's first home is hard to kill. Since it was built in 495 AD, Shaolin Temple, the original home of kung fu and Zen Buddhism, has been attacked and nearly destroyed multiple times. It's survived, ...