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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Shaolin Monastery

History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts

by Meir Shahar

A historical study of how the Buddhist monks of Shaolin came to practise fighting, from the Tang dynasty to the late imperial period. Shahar traces the shift from staff to empty-hand fighting and shows how the legend of Bodhidharma as founder of Shaolin boxing arose late.

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