In 1977, Hung was given his first lead role in a Golden Harvest production, in the film Shaolin Plot.

Huiguang and Sengchou were involved with martial arts before they became two of the very first Shaolin monks, reported as practicing martial arts before the arrival of Bodhidharma.

Zheng ranked Shaolin first of the top three Buddhist centers of martial arts.

In 2000's, Shaolin gets pop-culture recognition by appearing on The Simpsons ( TV series ), where they visit the Shaolin Temple in the episode Goo Goo Gai Pan, which first aired in 2006.

Two prominent publications about Shaolin were published in 2007, including the first ever photo documentary on the temple entitled Shaolin: Temple of Zen, published by the non-profit Aperture Foundation, featuring the photos of National Geographic photographer Justin Guariglia.

Shorinji Kempo is a system for self-improvement and training ( 行: gyo or discipline ) with many similarities to Shaolin kungfu, including using the same first three kanji.

Hero also saw Jet Li's first appearance in a film produced by mainland China, after his debut in Shaolin Temple.

The Shaolin style of wushu is regarded as amongst the first institutionalized Chinese martial arts.

* Empty Hand ,( lightning hand ) ( Danny Chan Kwok Kwan ): Fourth brother " Empty Hand ", lightning hand, bears much resemblance to Bruce Lee and his bullet-fast hands makes him the first goalkeeper for Team Shaolin.

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.

The first of a four volume Shaolin Soccer manhua was published in Hong Kong roughly nine months after the film originally premiered in 2001.

The duo drew attention with their first two 12 " offerings, " Shaolin Satellite " and " 2001: a Spliff Odyssey " and with their 1997 debut LP, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi.

Hansen's first title defense was against another undefeated fighter in Vitor " Shaolin " Ribeiro who took away Hansen's title by submitting him two minutes into the second round.

In the first and third films in the series, Liu portrayed the Shaolin monk San Te, but in Return, he portrays an imposter monk.

Liu ’ s first break was with Chang's Film Company ( a Shaw Brothers subsidiary operating in Taiwan ) acting small parts for such films as 5 Shaolin Masters, Shaolin Martial Arts, and 4 Assassins.

In 1996, Mathematics dove head first into production, in Staten Island, NY ( Shaolin ) and at home, in the P-Funk City, Plainfield, NJ, in between heavily scheduled tour dates and rigorous road travelling with his father's gospel group, The Soul Seekers.

The Northern Shaolin style associated with Gu Ruzhang was first taught to a lay disciple, the celebrated 18th century master Gan Fengchi of Jiangsu Province, by a Shaolin monk named Zhao Yuan, born Zhu Fu, a member of the Ming royal family who joined the sangha after the Ming was overthrown by the Qing in 1644.

In the Shaolin Temple, each subsequent generation takes the first part of their given name from a 70-character poem written by Xueting Fuyu.

Shaolin Monks is an action-adventure game that spans the events of Mortal Kombat II, starting with the aftermath of the first Mortal Kombat.

In October 2004, the president of Midway, David F. Zucker, called the release of Shaolin Monks the " first step toward delivering something that Mortal Kombat fans have been calling for: a new game set in the Mortal Kombat universe every year.

In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.

The Greek Orthodox allege that the real place that Jesus was held was the similarly named Prison of Christ, within their Monastery of the Praetorium, located near the Church of Ecce Homo, at the first station on the Via Dolorosa.

The first known reference to Lithuania as a nation (" Litua ") comes from the annals of the Monastery of Quedlinburg and is dated March 9, 1009.

The workload the following year was reduced, containing two judgments and one advisory opinion ; the Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions Case, the Interpretation of the Treaty of Neuilly Case ( the first case of the Court's Chamber of Summary Procedure ) and the Monastery of Saint-Naoum Question.

The first bhikkhuni ordination in Australia in the Theravadin tradition was held in Perth on October 22, 2009 at Bodhinyana Monastery.

An example is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a Roman Catholic nun of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France.

The first English translation, by Holy Transfiguration Monastery, of the " Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit " by Photios was published in 1983.

Cheri Monastery also called Chagri Dorjeden Monastery was established in 1620 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal ; the first monastery established by him at a young age of 27.

Around ten weeks later, on October 6, the first course of the Faculty of Letters was inaugurated at Sant Cugat del Vallès Monastery.

The Monasterio de Piedra was founded in 1194 with thirteen monks from Poblet Monastery, in an old castle next to the Piedra river, the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda was founded in 1202 and utilized some of the first hydrological technology in the region for harnessing water power and river diversion for the purpose of building central heating.

The Babi Yar ( Babyn Yar ) ravine was first mentioned in historical accounts in 1401, in connection with its sale by " baba " ( an old woman ), the cantiniere, to the Dominican Monastery.

In the first half of the 17th century, kings of the House of Vasa turned the Jasna Góra Monastery into a modern Dutch-style fortress, which was one of the pockets of Polish resistance against the Swedish armies during Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 ( for more information, see Siege of Jasna Góra ).

The Ancient Chronicle of the Dominican Monastery of St. Catherine in Pisa records: " Eyeglasses, having first been made by someone else, who was unwilling to share them, he made them and shared them with everyone with a cheerful and willing heart.

The first record of the name Orpington occurs in 1038, when King Cnut's treasurer Eadsy gave land at " Orpedingetune " to the Monastery of Christ Church at Canterbury.

Around this time he also became the first abbot of Ganden Monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa himself in 1409.

The Monastery of the Perpetual Rosary, known as the The Blue Chapel, was constructed between 1912 and 1914, as the first monastery dedicated to the recitation of the Perpetual Rosary in the United States.

* Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre to have been established in the West.

The elements in Bon that strongly resemble Buddhism became apparent with the codification of the yungdrung Bon canon by the first abbot of Menri Monastery, Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen in the 14th century, but a trend towards this probably began earlier.

The name Sakya (" pale earth ") derives from the unique grey landscape of Ponpori Hills in southern Tibet near Shigatse, where Sakya Monastery, the first monastery of this tradition, and the seat of the Sakya School was built by Khon Konchog Gyalpo ( 1034 – 1102 ) in 1073.

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya ( b. 1929 ) is the head of the Phuntsok Phodrang, and lives in Seattle, Washington, where he co-founded Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism with Dezhung Rinpoche III, and constructed the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the United States.

Labrang Monastery, in Xiahe County in Gansu province ( and in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo ), was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhaypa, Ngawang Tsondru.

According to tradition, the Amaras Monastery housed the first Armenian school in the historical Armenia, which was opened early in the 5th century by the inventor of the Armenian alphabet St. Mesrob Mashtots.