Using the future to preserve the Past - III

[Uwe]

Since some of you were interested, here is whats coming your way in Volume 1

It will have an estimated 1000 + pages


Volume 1 is divided into 4 parts.
Part 1 - History provides a historical view on the art.
Chapter 1 - Shaolin Gong Fu - Myth's and Reality - Final review
Chapter 2 - Shaolin History - Final Review
Chapter 3 - The Songshan Temple
Chapter 4 - The Linquan Yuan Temple in Putian (Doc, you will like this one, since some people question the existence)
Chapter 5 - A Walk-through in the Canton Temple before 1915 and a large number of additional temple images from a number of temples.

Part 2 Canonical Texts
Chapter 6 - Canonical Shaolin Texts and Shaolin Strategy Principles
Chapter 7 - The Y Ching personalized version going past the usual translations
Chapter 8 - Dao De Jing
Chapter 9 - Technical Training Aspects
Chapter 10 - Principles of Chinese Boxing and Sparring

Part 3 - My personal journey - Reflecting on 40 years in the art
Number of Chapters will be decided once the text has been fully converted and reviewed. It's a bit over 500 pages in text, and I write small.

Part 4 - Appendixes
Appendix A - The history of the monk soldiers
Appendix B - The "official" version of the Shaolin History
Appendix C - The 5 Animals in detail and an in-depth look at the implementation of the techniques
Appendix D - Weapons
Appendix E - China the beautiful - Historical images from China 1860 through the Boxer rebellion.


Volumes 2, 3 and 4 are ready and being currently reviewed.


Also, upon completion of a chapter, I will upload the images for Volume 1. The others I am currently deciding.


Uwe