Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

On the second floor of Far East Plaza in Chinatown, six kung fu students assume warlike expressions and ball their hands into fists. Shaolin Master Shi Yanxu bellows a command: “Mao Bu” — Chinese for ...

Though Shi Yan Ming is a world-renowned kung fu master, he was lucky to survive a poverty-stricken childhood as a peasant in China. He was born in 1964 in Henan Province, the heart-center of the ...

Like many kids growing up the early ’90s, Master Shi Yanqing watched Jet Li movies and dreamed of being a hero. Unlike most of those kids, Yanqing lived only 170 miles from the 1,519-year-old Shaolin ...

WAN Shan Qing had finally arrived. In defiance of his parents and carrying only a blanket, the 13-year-old had traveled more than 900 miles from his home province on the east coast of China to the ...

Following is a transcript of the video. - For me, real fighting is not really like this. Shifu Yanzi: My name is Shifu Yanzi. Shifu Yanzi is the Shaolin Temple name. Since 1983, I went to Shaolin ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Fans of Chinese kung fu could soon learn the oldest form of the martial art via mobile games, thanks to some tech-savvy monks at the world-renowned Shaolin Temple. Shaolin ...

Meet Shifu Kanishka Sharma: the first Indian to ever train at the Shaolin Temple. Watching ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ changed Kanishka Sharma’s life. Introduced to the film by his driver, he was so ...

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