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

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  1. See Ming shi lu, Wuzong reign, 86.1851.

  2. On Zhu Yuanzhang’s early years at the monastery, see Wu Han, Zhu Yuan-
    zhang zhuan, pp. 11–16, and Mote, “The Rise of the Ming Dynasty, 1330–1367,” pp.
    44–45.

  3. Gushan Yongjue heshang guanglu, 24.16a.

  4. The hells of fire, blood, and knives.

  5. Gushan Yongjue heshang guanglu, 24.16a–b.

  6. Huang Zongxi, Nanlei wending, 8.130; and Wile, T’ai-chi’s Ancestors, p. 56.

  7. See Zheng Ruoceng, Jiangnan jing lüe, 8b.22b; He Liangchen, Zhenji, 2.27;
    and Wen Yucheng, Shaolin fanggu, p. 298.

  8. See A’de, “Mingdai lamajiao yu Shaolin si.” On the Tibetan monk’s fight-
    ing techniques, see Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 1.1b.

  9. See Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 1.1b; Fu Mei, Song shu, 9.33b–34; and
    Wen Yucheng, Shaolin fanggu, pp. 309–310.

  10. See Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 1.1b.

  11. See Jizu shan zhi, 6.6b–7a. The Jizu shan zhi erroneously has Bianqun in-
    stead of Biandun. It alludes to Vajrapâÿi by the sixteenth-century name he was
    given at the Shaolin Monastery: Jinnaluo, on which see chapter 4 below.

  12. See Wu Shu, Shoubi lu, p. 110; and Ma Mingda, Shuo jian cong gao, p. 95.

  13. Naquin, Peking Temples and City Life, p. xxxi.

  14. Zhang Dai (1597–ca. 1670), Langhuan wenji, p. 37, translated by Wu Pei-Yi,
    “An Ambivalent Pilgrim to T’ai Shan,” p. 77.

  15. Yun Youke, Jianghu congtan, p. 201.

  16. Huang Baijia, Neijia quanfa, p. 1b; and Wile, T’ai-chi’s Ancestors, p. 58.

  17. See Ma Mingda, Shuo jian cong gao, pp. 68–76.

  18. See Xu Mengxin, San chao bei meng huibian, 48.8b–9a, 51.9b, and Ma Mingda,
    Shuo jian cong gao, pp. 68–69.

  19. Songshi, 455.13382.

  20. See Shuihu quanzhuan, 4.62 (Sidney Shapiro’s translation, Outlaws of the
    Marsh, p. 65), and the two late Ming versions of the Yang Family Saga: Yangjia jiang
    yanyi (50 chapters), by Xiong Damu (fl. 1550), 25.118–26.125, 38.179–180, and
    Yangjia jiang yanyi (58 chapters) (Preface 1606), by Ji Zhenlun, 15.98–17.109;
    31.189–191; 36.212–213; see also Ma Mingda, Shuo jian cong gao, pp. 71–73.

  21. Both monks figure in a Southern Song list of subjects popular among story-
    tellers. See Luo Ye, Xinbian zuiweng tanlu, p. 4. Lu i s refer red to i n t he stor y by h i s n ick-
    name “Tattooed Monk” (Hua Heshang).

  22. See Wu Shu, Shoubi lu, pp. 93–109.

  23. Tang Shunzhi, “Emei daoren quan ge,” in Tang Shunzhi, Jingchuan xian-
    sheng wenji, 2.8b–9a.

  24. Mt. Yu is in Changshu County, Jiangsu.

  25. The “nobleman” was Zhang’s friend Li Zhuyi, in whose house Li Lantian
    sojourned. Zhang’s poem was authored for Li Zhuyi’s manual of Li Lantian’s style.
    See Ma Mingda, Shuo jian cong gao, pp. 206–211.
    8 9. The “Six-Flowers Formation” (Liuhua zhen) was attributed to the renowned


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