Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Brown was accidentally knocked out by Chan.

The Tartars were also in contrast to the concept of Prester John, who may have been Prester Chan and, in Ludolphus's account, chased out of Asia by the Tartars and, in John Herbert's Travels, was Abyssinian.

The origins of the Tangut Chan can be also traced deeper, than it was previously believed: information on Bao-tang Wu-zhu （ 保唐无住720 ～ 794 ） travels in North-Western China from the Notes on Transmitting the Dharma Treasure through Generations implies that at the period of 760's some sort of Buddhism was spread in the region of Helanshan, where the Tangut were already residing.

In the 1983 martial arts film Project A, Jackie Chan also played an homage to Lloyd ( whom he has frequently cited as an influence on his work ) by falling from a clock tower.

In his account, Bishop Núñez de Vega also states that Votan belonged to the royal lineage of " Cham " ( probably " chan " or snake ) and that he established a kingdom called " Na Chan " ( Snake House ) on the Usumacinta River that eventually extended across Chiapas and Soconusco to the Pacific Coast.

Aside from regular collaborations with Chan, others such as Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Lam Ching-ying and Mang Hoi also began to make regular appearances in his films.

The cables also report that Bouterse and Khan were plotting to assassinate then minister of Justice Chan Santokhi and attorney general Subhaas Punwasi.

: A Federation engineering officer, Chan works with Amuro in testing the ν-Gundam, but also harbors feelings for him.

Later in the movie, she joins Char, whom she is looking at as a father figure, but as shown in her envy of Chan, she also hates Nanai.

The avocado tree also has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America ; a water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was discovered in the pre-Incan city of Chan Chan.

Other settlements with smaller numbers of inhabitants may also be found, as well as ancient Mayan sites such as Cuello, Lamanai, Noh Mul and Chan Chich.

Chinese Chan Buddhist monks also came over to teach at Japan's monasteries, and one of the monks ' activities was to introduce political leaders of the day to the various arts of miniature landscapes as ideal accomplishments for men of taste and learning.

* A large Ballcourt for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame, which an inscription there informs us was dedicated in 901 by the ruler Chan Chak K ' ak ' nal Ajaw, also known as Lord Chac before the decipherment of his corresponding name glyphs.

" Anita Chan also posits that China's household registration and temporary residence permit system has created a situation analogous to the passbook system in South Africa which was designed to regulate the supply of cheap labor.

He also translated Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Jean-Paul Sartre, Isabelle Eberhardt, Guy Frison-Roche, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Giorgio de Chirico, Si Lakhdar, E. Laoust, Ramon Beteta, Gabino Chan, Bertrand Flornoy, Jean Ferry, Denise Moran, Paul Colinet, Paul Magritte, Popul Buj, Francis Ponge, Bluet d ' Acheres and Ramon Sender

** Agnes Chan ( born 1955 ), Hong Kong singer, also famous in Japan

* Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as " pignut "

* Island of Fire, a 1991 Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan, also known as The Prisoner

Cheez TV also aired during Saturday morning under the moniker of The Big Cheez and featured such cartoons as Bruno the Kid, C. O. P. S., Jackie Chan Adventures, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Zoids ( Cheez TV was the first Western nation to air the final four episodes of the Zoids: Chaotic Century series in its English language version ).

Chinese Chan ( or Japanese Zen ) philosophy is also linked with drinking tea.

More recently, Odier founded the " Tantra / Chan centre " in Paris ( confirmed by his official website as operating from 1995 to 2000 ), and he has " taught courses on the spiritual traditions of the Far East at the University of California "— which his website also confirms, noting his " workshops and seminars throughout the world.

一行三昧 ) which is also known as the " samadhi of oneness " or the " calmness in which one realizes that all dharmas are the same " ( Wing-tsit Chan ), is one of the Four Samadhi that both refine, mark the passage to, and qualify the state of perfect enlightenment expounded in the Mohe Zhiguan.

Tiantai in China, the origin of the sect, where he learned of the primacy of the Chan ( later known in Japan as Zen ) school in Chinese Buddhism of the time.

A different story, which reflects the sense of history and lineage in Hung Ga, says that Luk Ah-choi learned Taming the Tiger Fist, a southern Shaolin form, from Abbot Chan, who was staying in the Hoi-tong Monastery in Guangdong.

From a young age Lam learned martial arts from his father and grandfather and, like them, he would eventually undertake training from masters on Loh Fu Mountain in neighboring Bo Loh ( 博羅 ) County, where he was taught by Chan ( Zen ) master Tai Yuk of the Wa Sau Toi temple, who knew the Dragon style.

Chan had learned martial arts from others before learning wing chun.

Some oral accounts suggest he learned at the same time period that Chan Wah Shun was at the school.

Learning only enough Wing Chun to defend himself, but certainly not enough to pass the system on in any capacity. While Yip Man oral tradition suggests that Yip Man learned from Leung Bik after Chan Wah Shun died.

Some stories borderlining on the absurd, suggest that Leung Jan taught Chan Wah Shun incorrectly and only his Son Leung Bik learned the “ Real ” Wing Chun System.

The Japanese legend of Gama Sennin ( 蝦蟇仙人 " Toad Immortal ") is based upon Chinese Liu Hai ( 劉海 ), a fabled 10th-century alchemist who learned the secret of immortality from the Chan Chu (" Three-legged Money Toad ").

Taking what he learned from the Chinese during his time there, Chan worked at the United Nations University in the 1990s and forwarded an approach to Integrated Farming which was termed Integrated Biomass Systems working specifically under the UNU / ZERI ZERI Bag Program.

Yip Man learned from Chan for four years before moving to Hong Kong to study at college.

In Taoism and many traditional Chinese religious sects such as Chan ( a cousin to the Zen school ), " third eye training " involves focusing attention on the point between the eyebrows with the eyes closed, and while the body is in various qigong postures.

* The PlayStation game Jackie Chan Stuntmaster includes a bonus level in which he wears his traditional Drunken Master dress and drinks wine while fighting.

The temple, like its mother temple in Taiwan, practices Humanistic Buddhism, which incorporates all of the eight traditional schools of Chinese Buddhism-especially the Linji Chan and Pure Land schools-to provide guidance deemed most useful to modern life.

The album was recorded in just six days and contained fourteen tracks ; opening with " Chan Chan " written by Compay Segundo, a four chord son that was to become what Cooder described as " the Buena Vista's calling card "; and ending with a rendition of " La Bayamesa ", a traditional Cuban patriotic song ( not to be confused with the Cuban national anthem of the same name ).

The traditional morning and evening Chinese Buddhist liturgy in the Chan and Pure Land schools combine mantras, recitation of the Buddha's name and physical and spiritual practices, such as bowing and walking meditation and vow making.

The main axis of Lingyin follows a traditional Song dynasty five-hall Chan sect structure.

Chan working with a network of poly-culture farming pioneers began refining Integrated Farming practices that had already been developed in south-east Asia in the 1960 through the 1980s, building on traditional night soil farming practice.

The Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices ( Chinese: 二入四行 Erh-ju ssu-hsing ; Japanese: Ninyū shigyō ron ) is a Buddhist text attributed to Bodhidharma, the traditional founder of Chan ( Japanese: Zen ) Buddhism.

The following biography is the traditional Chan biography as handed down throughout the centuries, including the Denkoroku by Zen Master Keizan Jokin ( 1268 – 1325 ).