Kung Fu Monks Go Modern. By Ching-Ching Ni . Dec. 4, 2005 12 AM PT . ... Then came “Shaolin Temple,” a 1982 film that was the first Hong Kong kung fu flick to be shot at the temple.

Master Shi Yanxu teaches children kung fu outdoors at the Far East Plaza in Chinatown. Yanxu ran away from home at a young age to train as a monk at the Shaolin Temple.

The sacred temple where kung fu was born some 1,500 years ago to spawn centuries of undefeated masters is at last surrendering to the almighty buck. Critics were kicking and screaming in outrage ye… ...

SEVERSON: Shi Yan Ming is a 34th-generation Shaolin monk, a kung fu master who defected from China in 1992. He has established a Shaolin temple and kung fu school in downtown Manhattan.

Celebrity Kung Fu Monk Shifu Shi Yan Ming Can’t Stop Running One of the world’s leading kung fu masters has trained the Wu-Tang Clan, Björk, and Wesley Snipes. Running is central to his training.

Kung fu master Shi Dechao can swing his 22-pound "monk's spade," an ancient Chinese shovel, like a majorette twirling a baton. His lightning punches, in a style the ancients called Iron Fist ...

YES, yes, everybody was kung- fu fighting, Grasshopper. The image of fighting monks has pervaded pop culture – both Eastern and Western – for decades. But there’s more to “w… ...

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Shaolin monks perform at Shaolin Temple in Zhengzhou city, central Chinas Henan province. The temple, its monks and their distinctive form of kung fu have developed into a lucrative business ...

The Monks in their art program illustrated mystical powers of Kung Fu combined with Tai-chi excercise. Chinese monks, living under the strict rules of Zen-Budhism, believe in the philosophy that ...