Lee tells Han, " You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple.

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

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.

Lee ( Bruce Lee ) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess.

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.

Variously said to have taken place in 1647 under the Shunzhi Emperor, in 1674 under the Kangxi Emperor, or in 1732 under the Yongzheng Emperor, this destruction is also supposed to have helped spread Shaolin martial arts through China by means of the five fugitive monks.

There is evidence of Shaolin martial arts being exported to Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Polly's statement is not corroborated in any period documents, such as the Shaolin Stele erected in 728.

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.

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

It is an anecdotal story of how the Shaolin monk Sengchou ( 480-560 ) gained supernatural strength and fighting ability by praying to Vajrapani and being force-fed raw meat.

All of these claims, however, are generally not supported by martial arts historians because the idea of Bodhidharma influencing Shaolin boxing is based on a forged qigong manual written during the 17th century.

Although the Wudang name falsely suggests these arts originated at the so-called Wudang Mountain, it is simply used to distinguish the skills, theories and applications of neijia (" internal arts ") from those of the Shaolin grouping, waijia (" hard " or " external ") martial art styles.

Worship is evident in Buddhism in such forms as: guru yoga, mandala, thanka, yantra yoga, the discipline of the fighting monks of Shaolin, panchamrita, mantra recitation, tea ceremony, ganacakra, amongst others.

A well-known Chinese Buddhist order is the ancient Shaolin order in Ch ' an ( Zen ) Buddhism and in modern times the Order of Hsu Yun.

Of the multitude styles of kung fu and wushu, only some are actually related to Shaolin.

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.

In the martial arts context it is natural to assume that " shorin " really refers to the Shaolin Temple, But that is not the only direction we can go.

There are five variations of monkey kung fu developed as part of the Da Sheng Men system, and still utilized in the later Da Sheng Pi Gua system ( although the Crafty monkey variation described below may have been absorbed into the Lost monkey curriculum in Da Shing Pi Gua and Bei Shaolin among others, hence there are only five variations listed, in these systems ):

* At least three Kill Bill references originate with this film: Pai Mai's introduction scene references the stairway and water training scene, Pai Mai himself though in white in Kill Bill is the blind orange master monk ( who in Kill Bill blinds Elle ), and finally the five point finger exploding hand technique comes from the end battle scene of Shaolin Wooden Men where the villain uses a special punch technique on the protangontists but is only able to deliver 4 of the 5 blows ( with the protagonist holding his heart as Bill does right before dying ).

Furthermore, Vajrapani is one of the earliest Dharmapalas and the only Buddhist deity to be mentioned in the Pali Canon as well as be worshiped in the Shaolin Temple, Tibetan Buddhism, and even Pure Land Buddhism ( where he is known as Mahasthamaprapta and is one of a Triad comprising Amitabha and Avalokiteshwara ).

* Grand Master Mieu Hien, the only layman among the five who also practiced Southern Shaolin style.

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.