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

148 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation Taiji Quan is a product of the Ming-Qing transition period. It inherited, developed, and ...

Gymnastics 149 centuries), some quan styles incorporated aspects of daoyin. The integration was accelerated with the appearance ...

150 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation fighter depends on the qi of the whole body concentrating on one point,” writes Chang Nai ...

Gymnastics 151 including those resulting from falling, fighting, a sprained waist or a choked chest. Indeed, he himself became s ...

152 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation An early Boxer leader, a Buddhist monk named Xincheng, reportedly boasted in 1899 that “m ...

Gymnastics 153 Sinews Transformation Classic, for instance, outlines a method of hardening the body that is supposed to be equal ...

154 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation (Bengquan), Exploding Fist (Paoquan), and Shearing Fist (Hengquan) with the five elements ...

Gymnastics 155 externally. In this way we develop within and without, the fine and the gross, and with penetrating understanding ...

156 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation I hold my precious sword, whose name is Dragon Source; Flashing as I unsheathe it, it ill ...

Gymnastics 157 the flow, never attack frontally. Mastery of this art allows one to match a hundred, and a hundred to match a tho ...

158 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation monastery, they can all be traced to earlier manuals of gymnastics and breath- ing. The v ...

Gymnastics 159 fills the mouth, divide each mouthful into three, and swallow. When the dragon (the saliva) moves, the tiger (the ...

160 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation the teeth and swallowing the saliva, breathing and directing the qi to the “Lower Cinnaba ...

Gymnastics 161 most popular tutelary divinities of Chinese Buddhism. Originally a Hindu warrior—Weituo is a mistranscription of ...

162 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation printed alike), which attest to its popularity in Qing times (see appendix). Weituo’s exe ...

Gymnastics 163 the sacred geographies of both faiths. It was the site of dozens of Daoist and Buddhist shrines, the most famous ...

164 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation does not escape. Massaging it, it lasts. When the qi is stored at the center it does not ...

Gymnastics 165 of the “Purple Coagulation Man of the Way.” Chang Naizhou compared his own external method to the Sinews Transfor ...

166 Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation of Liang [in south China] to the Kingdom of Wei [in the north]. He faced the wall [in med ...

Gymnastics 167 mind transmission is contained in this scripture. However, the scrip- ture’s wording cannot be accurately transla ...