The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Shaolin Monastery historically worshiped a deity known as Kimnara, a dharmapala, as their patron saint and progenitor of the Shaolin staff method.

Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple (, ; ) is a Chán Buddhist temple on Mount Song, near Dengfeng, Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.

The first Shaolin Monastery abbot was Batuo ( also called Fotuo or Buddhabhadra, not to be confused with Bodhidharma ) a dhyana master who came to China from India in 464 to spread Buddhist teachings.

According to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Daoxuan, Shaolin Monastery was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the central peak of Mount Song, one of the Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.

A tree within the Shaolin Monastery used by the monks to practise finger-punching

In the past, many have tried to capitalise on Shaolin Monastery fame by building their own schools on Mount Song.

A dharma gathering was held from August 19 to August 20, 1999, in Shaolin Monastery for Shi Yongxin's assumption of office as abbot.

A number of traditions make reference to a Southern Shaolin Monastery located in Fujian province.

Associated with stories of the supposed burning of Shaolin by the Qing government and with the tales of the Five Elders, this temple, sometimes known by the name Changlin, is often claimed to have been either the target of Qing forces or a place of refuge for monks displaced by attacks on the Shaolin Monastery in Henan.

In his book The Shaolin Monastery ( 2008 ), Tel Aviv University professor Meir Shahar notes that the bodhisattva Vajrapani is the patron saint of Shaolin Monastery.

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* 477 ( or 497 ): Chan Buddhists found the Shaolin Monastery on Mount Shan in Henan, China.

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* Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei builds the Shaolin Monastery ( Henan ) for the monk Batuo.

He spreads Buddhism and travels to the northern Chinese kingdom of Wei to the Shaolin Monastery.

China also includes the home to the well-respected Shaolin Monastery and Wudang Mountains.

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Founded in the fifth century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the best known Mahayana Buddhist monastery to the Western world.

The famous Mount Song and its Shaolin Temple is located in the far east of the region, near the capital city Zhengzhou.

Sui Emperor Wen had bestowed the estate on a nearby monastery called Shaolin for its monks to farm but Wang Shichong, realizing its strategic value, seized the estate and there placed troops and a signal tower, as well as establishing a prefecture called Yuanzhou.

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.

By the mid-16th century military experts from all over Ming China were travelling to Shaolin to study its fighting techniques.

Around 1560 Yú Dàyóu travelled to Shaolin Monastery to see for himself its monks ' fighting techniques, but found them disappointing.

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 Chéng Zōngyóu learned during a more than ten year stay at the monastery.

While some of these are clear commercial exploitation of the Shaolin Temple and its legends, they have helped make Shaolin a household name around the world, and kept the temple alive in the minds of many young generations.

While the details of the history alter according to the teller, with names and places shifting as they tend to do in any oral history, in essence the story of Eagle Claw began in the Shaolin Temple and in Chinese military training, became a family tradition passed on from parent to child for generations and eventually shed its air of secrecy with the advent of public martial arts schools.

That attests to the Southern Shaolin origin of this style and its close relationship to other styles originating from Southern Shaolin.

For most of its history, Shaolin martial arts was largely weapon-focused: staves were used to defend the monastery, not bare hands.

The Hong Kong-made film Shaolin Soccer contains a scene in which one of Sing's brothers is being asked to join Sing's soccer team, and he refuses because he mathematically predicts the team will fail ; he uses a coin toss to demonstrate his point, saying it has zero chance of landing on its edge.

The Miramax film corporation bought the American film rights to Shaolin Soccer before its release in China, so they helped publish the comic book along with two Chinese film companies who originally produced the film.

Through Luóhànquán, its lineage can be traced back to the Shaolin temple during the time of the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ).

The emphasis on flexibility in northern Shaolin styles is the guiding principle of Mi Zong, and this is evident in the versatility of its attacks and the extent to which it integrates the concepts of many internal styles.

Notable performances that reflect this mandate include the Last Empress with its dramatic, musical portrayal of an important figure in Korean history, the Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company, South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir, Shaolin Warriors, Ricky Cheng, David Rudder & Friends and Club Tropicana.

36th Chamber of Shaolin is widely considered to be one of the greatest kung fu films and a turning point in its director's and star's careers.

The six leading orthodox sects in the wulin ( Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Kunlun, Kongtong and Mount Hua ) form an alliance to attack the cult at its headquarters on Bright Peak.

The spread of Pào Chuí was due in part to its early association with Shaolin.

He became famous for playing the lead in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and its sequels.

For instance, the internalist Yang Jwingming claims Zhou was a scholar who trained at the famed Shaolin temple and later taught Yue other skills beyond archery, such as various forms of internal and external martial arts.

Traditional Chinese schools of martial arts, such as the famed Shaolin monks, often dealt with the study of martial arts not just as a means of self-defense or mental training, but as a system of ethics.

In the Fung Siu-Ching oral tradition, the Young Forest Shaolin Abbot Chi Shim ( also Jee Shim ) introduced the Muk Yan Jong or Dummy Form to the Red Boat Society members, and it was from there that all of the Wing Chun ( Weng Chun in the Fung Siu-Chin line ) were created.