The Shaolin Monastery. History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts

188 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation decision to eliminate the Shaolin monks was due to tactical considerations no less than t ...

Suspect Rebels 189 riod, it had been renovated by the staff expert general Yu Dayou.^24 Then, in the 1640s, it was burned down “ ...

190 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation 1666), who had held the post during the last years of the Ming. In 1646 he was officially ...

Suspect Rebels 191 relations with the regime, if it were not for the officials’ apprehension of the monks’ military activities. ...

192 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation temple’s relation with the regime. Here is Yaertu warning the Qianlong em- peror in 1739 ...

Suspect Rebels 193 lin couplet during his sojourn at the temple. That it had remained among his belongings for more than twenty ...

194 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation martial community. Here is the Dengfeng County magistrate He Wei (fl. 1830) warning the S ...

Suspect Rebels 195 the famous temple. Therefore they need not make pretence. The abbot laughed and assented.”^40 Epilogue Contem ...

196 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation of writing it is uncertain whether the Chinese martial arts will be featured in the 2008 ...

197 Conclusion History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts The history of the Shaolin Temple is not identical to the evoluti ...

198 Conclusion lated to Buddhism and violence on the one hand, and those that concern martial arts history and its relation to n ...

History, Religion, and Chinese Martial Arts 199 of Buddhist thinkers who had explained that killing was in certain circum- stanc ...

200 Conclusion the literary elite. Whereas the strategic maneuvering of armies—the so- called “art of war” (bingfa)—had been inv ...

History, Religion, and Chinese Martial Arts 201 Changes and, in some cases, Buddhist scriptures. The result was a unique amal- g ...

202 Conclusion What this book reveals, then, practitioners have already known: The Chi- nese martial art is a multifaceted syste ...

203 Appendix Some Editions of the Sinews Transformation Classic (The best modern edition is included in Zhongguo chuantong yangs ...

204 Appendix (5) 1875 manuscript edition. Photographic reproduction titled The Illustrated Sinews Transformation Classic (Huitub ...

Notes Introduction The comparison has been made by Wile, Lost T’ai-chi Classics, pp. 25–30. On the Republican discourse of nati ...

See Ching, “United Nations, Divided Shaolin,” p. 11. Fu Mei, Song shu, 9.35a. Fu’s Song shu covers all the mountain’s sacred si ...

See, respectively, Pei Cui (ca. 670–736), “Shaolin si bei” (“The Shaolin Mon- astery Stele”) (728), in Quan Tang wen, ed. Dong ...