I was practicing my bowel exercises the other day and needed some reading material to pass the time. After a quick search I found an older Kung-fu/Qigong magazine.
It was one of the special Shaolin issues with YX looking very stoic on the cover. Inside among the many shaolin articles, by our friend Gene Ching and others, there was one article on the 2002 (?) Shaolin symposium. It was a symposium that was put together (by YX in hopes of a bid for UNSECO world heritage site status) to help preserve the history of Shaolin traditions and Gong-fu. The article was more or less of a summary of the happenings there. Interestingly, there was a book of disertations (and other fancy words for papers) on all of the shaolin history, traditions, and Gong-fu (60 papers to be more accurate). I'm curious if this book is all in chinese and if its available to the public. It supposed to contain info on "authentic" shaolin topics.
Also during the symposium there was also Demos of "monks" practicing original forms ("no wushu here." paraphrasing Xinglong). This throws me a bit because I thought YX was trying bring the modern wushu into Shaolin. What are YX motives? what is he planning? What would happen if Shaolin became a world heritage site? I'll look that one up...
It was one of the special Shaolin issues with YX looking very stoic on the cover. Inside among the many shaolin articles, by our friend Gene Ching and others, there was one article on the 2002 (?) Shaolin symposium. It was a symposium that was put together (by YX in hopes of a bid for UNSECO world heritage site status) to help preserve the history of Shaolin traditions and Gong-fu. The article was more or less of a summary of the happenings there. Interestingly, there was a book of disertations (and other fancy words for papers) on all of the shaolin history, traditions, and Gong-fu (60 papers to be more accurate). I'm curious if this book is all in chinese and if its available to the public. It supposed to contain info on "authentic" shaolin topics.
Also during the symposium there was also Demos of "monks" practicing original forms ("no wushu here." paraphrasing Xinglong). This throws me a bit because I thought YX was trying bring the modern wushu into Shaolin. What are YX motives? what is he planning? What would happen if Shaolin became a world heritage site? I'll look that one up...
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