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.

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.

* 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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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.

Fujian does have a historic monastery called Changlin, and a monastery referred to as a " Shaolin cloister " has existed in Fuqing, Fujian, since the Song Dynasty, but whether these have an actual connection to the Henan monastery or a martial tradition is still unknown.

In 527 CE, he settled down in the Shaolin monastery in Henan province, and inspired the development of Shaolin Kung Fu.

* The Shaolin Temple ( Henan ) is founded ( according to the Jiaqing Chongxiu Yitongzhi ).

* 527: Bodhidharma settles into the Shaolin monastery in Henan province of China.

Conditions of lawlessness in Henan — where the Shaolin Monastery is located — and surrounding provinces during the late Ming Dynasty and all of the Qing Dynasty contributed to the development of martial arts.

He supported Zen Shaolin, a music, dance and martial arts show intended to increase tourism that opened in 2007 in Henan, despite the producers concerns that a celebration of religion and sacred music would be opposed by the government.

The name " Shōrinji " is a literal reading of the Chinese word " Shaolin Temple " from the Shaolin Monastery in Song Shan district ( 嵩山少林寺: Sūzan-shōrinji ) in Henan Province ( 河南省 ) in China.

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.

Southern Shaolin is a branch of the better known Shaolin Monastery in Henan province.

In its broadest sense, Northern Shaolin (; Pinyin: Běishàolín, Cantonese Yale: Bak-siu-làhm ) refers to the external ( as opposed to internal ) martial arts of Northern China referring to those styles from the Northern Shaolin Monastery in Henan.

The monastery in Henan is the original Shaolin Monastery.

As the reputation of the Shaolin martial arts grew during the following centuries, its name became synonymous with martial arts, regardless of whether an individual art traced its origins to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan or not.

Demonstrating Kung Fu at Daxiangguo Monastery, Kaifeng, Henan.