Despite the legend, Meir Shahar notes there is no historical evidence for the practicing of unarmed boxing at Shaolin until the transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Meir Shahar (Hebrew: מאיר שחר, born in 1959 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University.
In his book The Shaolin Monastery (2008), Prof. Meir Shahar notes Vajrapani is the patron saint of the Shaolin Monastery.
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