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4 unusual facts about Shaolin Monastery


Kenji Tokitsu

A practitioner of Shotokan karate since youth, in 1984 Tokitsu started his own school, the Shaolin-mon ("door to Shaolin", compare the Mumonkan) school in Paris, where he had taught Shotokan karate since 1971.

Sepp Schönmetzler

In addition to figure skating, Schönmetzler also competed in golf, tennis and shaolin temple boxing.

The God of Cookery

Chow arrives at the competition at the last minute, and reveals to Tong what had happened: Chow escaped the assassin's second bullet, and found his way to a Shaolin monastery, where head monk Wet Dream (a spoof on the Chinese word for nocturnal spermatorrhea) nursed him back to health.

Xi Lu

In the story, fighter-monks from the Shaolin Monastery eventually defeated the invaders, and were rewarded by the Emperor.


Doshin So

In 1936 Wen formally passed his title of grandmaster of Yihe Quán to Nakano, at the Mount Song Shaolin Monastery, at Henan province.

Return to the 36th Chamber

In the first and third films in the series, Liu portrayed the Shaolin monk San Te, but in Return, he portrays an imposter monk.

Shi De Yang

Shi De Yang (释德杨), born Shi Wanfeng (史万峰; Taikang, 1968) is a Chinese Buddhist priest, and the 31st Grand Master of the fighting monks (wǔsēng 武僧) of the Shaolin Monastery.

Vajrapani

In his book The Shaolin Monastery (2008), Prof. Meir Shahar notes Vajrapani is the patron saint of the Shaolin Monastery.


see also

Bukichi Miki

This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.