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See alsoKendô; Religion and Spiritual Development: Japan References Acker, William. 1998. Kyûdô: The Japanese Arts of Archery.Ru ...

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Baguazhang (Pa Kua Ch’uan) Of the four internal martial arts of China, the most distinctive appearing is baguazhang. The name me ...

Tsun-I). The linear drills practiced in some styles of baguazhang are be- lieved to descend from the interaction with xingyi. Th ...

and throwing techniques and also how to respond to an opponent. Pole training and weighted training teach power trans- fer and c ...

———. 1984. The Master’s Manual of Pa Kua Chang.Pacific Grove, CA: Ching Lung Martial Arts Association. Johnson, Jerry, and Josep ...

fencing, and even a form of football, for “practice in using the hands and feet, facilitating the use of weapons, and organizing ...

day, but also records the names of sixteen of these styles for posterity. Prior to Ming times, boxing had only been mentioned in ...

on one occasion their heroic exploits earned them the everlasting reputa- tion of Shaolin Monk Soldiers. With the Manchu conques ...

1900 brought the retaliation of an eight-nation expe- ditionary force comprising British, French, Italian, Russian, German, Japa ...

pects of the traditional arts, particularly in the practical application of fighting techniques. But Chinese boxing and the mart ...

Liu Xi. 1985. Shiming(Elucidation of Names). Vol. 78, Sikuquanshu Huiyao(Major Works from the Complete Collection of Books in th ...

of fighting was believed to be the Buddhist Shaolin Temple. Although these traditional assumptions have been questioned recently ...

lows, and urbanized settings, many worked the waters in trade, commerce, and fishing. In fact, a portion of the in- habitants sp ...

so those skills were more deeply researched and trained. In the south, where it was much more crowded and urbanized, the weapons ...

The temples were impromptu banks as well as storehouses for har- vested grains. Because of this, the temples were also targets o ...

ples over a period of many hundreds of years. One of these temples, located in Henan province, in northern China, has been resto ...

however, to assume that the development of martial arts was a primary function of the Shaolin Temple, and that all fighting arts ...

Shaolin arts have quite a diversity of short-range weapons, but also train in long-pole weapons, though not to a greater extent. ...

monks went underground and formed patriotic societies determined to overthrow the unjust regime that had almost wiped them out. ...