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 ...

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.

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 ...

If you don't practice kung fu, you don't have life." Source: USA Shaolin Temple In 1992, Shi was touring the US with a select group of Shaolin monks when he defected from China, sneaking out of ...

Shaolin monks practice martial arts at the Pagoda Forest of the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Central China's Henan Province. Photo: Courtesy of Shaolin Temple ...

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 ...

Today, Shaolin kung fu is widely known, and the monks’ feats in athleticism have been emulated in popular movies. The 1982 movie “The Shaolin Temple,” which launched Jet Li’s career and ...

The temple in which he was raised had been the original Shaolin Temple, dating back to 495 A.D., and the lineage of monks practicing kung fu and Chan Buddhism (also known as Zen) helped establish ...

Today, Shaolin kung fu is widely known, and the monks’ feats in athleticism have been emulated in popular movies. The 1982 movie “The Shaolin Temple,” which launched Jet Li’s career and was filmed on ...