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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 and its famed Pagoda Forest were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 as part of the " Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
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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Lee tells Han, " You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple.
The shào ( 少 ) in " Shaolin " refers to Mount Shaoshi ( 少室山 ), one of the seven mountains forming the Songshan mountain range ; it is on this mountain the Temple is situated.
The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was a supporter of Shaolin Temple, and he wrote the calligraphic inscriptions that still hang over the Heavenly King Hall and the Buddha Hall today.
Some accounts claim that a supposed southern Shaolin Temple was destroyed instead of, or in addition to, the temple in Henan: Ju Ke, in the Qing bai lei chao ( 1917 ), locates this temple in Fujian province.
According to Matthew Polly, a travel writer and martial artist, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong granted the Shaolin Temple extra land and special " imperial dispensation " to eat meat, and drink, which would make Shaolin the only temple in China that did not prohibit alcohol, although this practice has ceased today.
The historian Meir Shahar is unsure if the popular tale about wine and meat consumption originated after the released of films like Shaolin Temple.
However, as of 2010, the Ta Gou kung fu school, one of the largest martial arts schools in China, owns and practises on land below Shaolin Temple.
Shaoshi, the peak where Shaolin Temple is located on Mount Song, means " little hall " and thus the name of the peak becomes a play on words for the six gates or doors by which the reader may enter the little hall on Mount Song and find enlightenment.
** Hai Teng, abbott of Shaolin Temple ( b. 1902?
* The Shaolin Temple ( Henan ) is founded ( according to the Jiaqing Chongxiu Yitongzhi ).
* Shaolin Temple is founded ( according to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Dàoxuān, the monastery is built on the north side of Shaoshi, the western peak of Mount Song, one of the four Sacred Mountains of China, by emperor Xiao Wen Di of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.
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He later left Shaolin Temple and established the Taoist monasteries in Wudang Mountains.
Numerous heritages have been left behind including the ruins of Shang Dynasty capital city Yinxu and the Shaolin Temple.
The famous Mount Song and its Shaolin Temple is located in the far east of the region, near the capital city Zhengzhou.
Again, this is a misconception, as Chinese martial arts pre-date the construction of the Shaolin Temple by at least several hundred years.
Furthermore, he had assembled an army at Luoyang to march on the Shaolin Temple itself.
Recent developments in the 20th century such as Shorinji Kempo () practised in Japan's Sohonzan Shorinji () still maintains close ties with China's Song Shan Shaolin Temple due to historic links.
Japanese Shorinji Kempo Group financial contributions to the maintenance of the historic edifice of the Song Shan Shaolin Temple in 2003 received China's recognition.
In 1977, the cult classic Shaw Brothers film Shaolin Temple was released and in 1982 a film by the same name starring Jet Li is credited as a major reason for the revival of the Shaolin Temple in China after the Cultural Revolution.

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The Shaolin monks have made some fame for themselves through their fighting skill ; this is all due to their possession of this manuscript.
From the 8th to the 15th centuries, no extant source documents Shaolin participation in combat ; then the 16th and 17th centuries see at least forty extant sources attest that, not only did monks of Shaolin practice martial arts, but martial practice had become such an integral element of Shaolin monastic life that the monks felt the need to justify it by creating new Buddhist lore.
A third, more academic book, is " The Shaolin Monastery ; History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts ," published by the Israeli Shaolin scholar Meir Shahar in 2008 about the history of the Shaolin Temple.
This work lists what are alleged to be authentic Shaolin training methods that can produce extraordinary skills and abilities ; examples of these skills include iron body techniques ( both offensive and defensive ), jumping and wall scaling techniques, pole-top leaping dexterity training, pressure-point and nerve manipulation, and a host of other feats.
According to the Shaolin Grandmasters ' text the style is the single most external style in the Shaolin canon ; the longer the stylist practices, however, the more she or he comes to rely solely on internal power.
The traditional lineage of the system begins with master Wang Zhenyuan in the late nineteenth-century ; but the style was originally formed at the Shaolin Henan Temple before being transferred to Wang.
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.
However, Fung is keen on proving his skills, and in order to turn Sing and his players into real soccer athletes, he invites a vicious team, consisting of local thugs ( some of whom Sing had encountered previously ) to play against them in an exhibition match ; rather than score points, the thugs proceed to give the Shaolin team a brutal beating.
Fung arranges a game between the two teams under false pretense of settling past disputes ; in reality, Fung did this to give the Shaolin brothers their first taste of a real soccer game.
Shaolin Soccer received highly positive reviews from film critics ; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 91 % of critics had given the film positive reviews based on 86 reviews, with 100 % from the top critics.
Stephen Chow refused to change the title ; as a result, Shaolin Soccer < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > producers were banned from shooting films in mainland China for one year.
The movements of the Southern Dragon style (; Yale Cantonese: long4 ying4 mo1 kiu4 ; literally " dragon shape rubbing bridges ") of Shaolin Boxing are based on the mythical Chinese dragon.
However, he is unable to wrench himself free from the various tribulations and dangers that lie ahead ; he is no longer regarded as a Shaolin student and has no choice but to accept his fate.
During the Qing Dynasty, a Shaolin Buddhist nun and abbess, Ng Mui ( 五枚師太 ), reportedly fled the destruction of the Siu Lam Temple at the hands of the government ; the temple was believed to be harbouring revolutionaries.
Tobias intended to work on a series of platform games to expand the Mortal Kombat universe, including titles centering around Baraka and Liu Kang ; only the latter was actually released by Midway ( 2005's Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks ) despite having sat on the drawing board for many years.
At its most specific, Northern Shaolin refers to a style called Northern Shaolin Boxing School (; Cantonese Yale: Bak-siu-làhm Kyun-mun ), disseminated by Gu Yu-jeung ( 1894 – 1952 ; also known as Ku Yu-cheung or, in Pinyin, Gu Ruzhang ) and represented today by Grandmaster Chan Kowk Wai.

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