Today, it's a training ground for thousands of young boys as young as five, who dream of becoming warrior monks, or martial arts film stars. Here's what the home of kung fu is like. The Shaolin ...

Though legend says kung fu was created at the Shaolin Temple as a series of exercises to keep the monks active and fit, martial arts had been in existence in China before the founding of the ...

Airborne and dynamic, these impressive photographs reveal the dedication of young monks practising kung fu. The acrobatic ... backdrop of the Western Shaolin Temple in Zhongshan town, Chongqing ...

Shaolin's single paved road is now lined by more than 40 kung fu schools, many of them set up by warrior monks or their disciples. (Unlike other Asian martial arts like karate or tae kwon do ...

just 12 elderly monks remained, subsisting by farming a tiny plot of land and keeping a low profile reading scriptures and practicing kung fu. Then came “Shaolin Temple,” a 1982 film that was ...

An ancient tree has dozens of small dents, made by "finger punches" of warrior monks over the centuries. This is the Shaolin temple complex, in the mountains of central China, where kung fu was ...

BEIJING: Monks at the famous Shaolin temple, the birthplace of kung fu, have entered entertainment wrestling and are playing along with Japanese and American wrestlers. The monks and other ...

where monks have been practising martial arts for over 1,500 years. Shaolin kung fu is presented with the movement of human body such as attack, defense and wrestling as its core.

Students from six African countries started five years of training at the temple in 2011 and the monks have also begun ... from the first three-month Shaolin Kung Fu African Class of the Ministry ...

A monk practices Shaolin kung fu at Wanshou Temple, northeast China's Jilin province on March 2. Wanshou Temple is the only temple in Jilin province with warrior monks. There are 12 monks and the ...