Maps and Figures
Maps
- Location of the Shaolin Monastery 10
- Shaolin’s contribution to Li Shimin’s campaign against
Wang Shichong 24 - Ming centers of monastic fighting 63
- Some Henan sites associated with the Qing martial arts 124
Figures
- Bodhidharma returning to the West on a 1209 Shaolin stele 15
- The Rush-Leaf Bodhidharma on a 1624 Shaolin stele 16
- Li Shimin’s autograph “Shimin” as copied onto the 728
Shaolin stele 27 - Xuanzong’s imperial calligraphy on the 728 Shaolin stele 32
- List of the thirteen heroic monks on the 728 Shaolin stele 34
- Ninth-century Dunhuang painting of Vajrapâÿi 3 8
- Vajr apâÿi’s sinewy physique in a Tang statue 39
- Twelfth-century Shaolin stele of Nârâyaÿa (Vajrapâÿi) 4 1
- The “Lifting-Sleeve Position” in Cheng Zongyou’s Shaolin Staff
Method of 1621 60 - Practice-sequence diagram from Cheng Zongyou’s Shaolin Staff
Method of 1621 61 - Abbot Wenzai’s 1517 Vajrapâÿi (Nârâyaÿa) stele 84
- Vajrapâÿi (referred to as Kiœnara) atop Mt. Song 86
- Vajrapâÿi’s (Kiœnara) Qing Shaolin statue 89
- Arhat equipped with a staff; detail of an early seventeenth-century
Shaolin fresco 90 - Sun Wukong’s staff; late Ming (ca. 1625) woodblock illustration 94
- Huiming manipulating the staff from horseback; woodblock
illustration dated 1498 96 - Late Ming woodblock illustration of Lu Zhishen manipulating
the staff 98
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