As the chief purveyor of I-think-you'll-find-ism here, I believe you'll find that the original inspiration was this guy:
GrahamB wrote:As the chief purveyor of I-think-you'll-find-ism here, I believe you'll find that the original inspiration was this guy:
Trick wrote:What about that "stomped" wear and tear floor and that wall painting with dark and fair skinned monks mixing it up in Kung fu'ish sparring....are these part of the original temple?.....If remember right I recall reading that Doshin-So(founder of Japanese Shorinji Kempo) witnessed those wall paintings(early30's maybe?)
GrahamB wrote:The first article you'll find is this one:
https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/yo ... ater-truth
GrahamB wrote:I believe he was saying this:
Trick wrote:but it also says that his two? disciples where already versed in MA before coming to study with the Indian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batuo
Bao wrote:Trick wrote:but it also says that his two? disciples where already versed in MA before coming to study with the Indian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batuo
From another WIKI entry:
"There are historical records that Batuo's first Chinese disciples, Huiguang (慧光) and Sengchou (僧稠), both had exceptional martial skills. For example, Sengchou's skill with the tin staff is even documented in the Chinese Buddhist canon. After Buddhabadra, another Indian[7] or Tamil[8] monk, Bodhidharma (菩提达摩; Pútídámó), simply called Damo (达摩) by the Chinese, came to Shaolin in 527 AD. His Chinese disciple, Huike (慧可), was also a highly trained martial arts expert. There are implications that these first three Chinese Shaolin monks, Huiguang, Sengchou, and Huike, may have been military men before entering the monastic life."
Exactly. They were soldiers. Because the monks were lazy, they taught monks their exercises from military practice. Batuo or Bodhidharma had nothing to do with the monks physical practice. The Chinese monks and students practiced Chinese gymnastics and Chinese physical exercises. There's no Indian influence in Shaolin martial arts.
Edit: And BTW, the Swedish Chef speaks fake Norwegian, not fake Swedish. He sounds nothing like Swedish, but very much like Norwegian.
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