The heads of the St. Petersburg Shaolin Culture Center practice their moves in the Russian city. [Photo provided to China Daily] Fourteen years ago, Australian cancer sufferer David Ian Burn visited ...

Monks from the Shaolin Temple perform kung fu at the United Nations headquarters during the 2013 Shaolin Temple Cultural Festival. Hu Haidan / China Daily Shi Yongxin, the 30th-generation abbot of the ...

What is kung fu like? Shaolin kung fu can involve agile movements, resilient spirit, elegant motions or powerful strikes. Regardless of age, race, gender, or body type, every Shaolin disciple shares a ...

A participant demonstrates Kung Fu during the 2023 African Shaolin Kungfu Games held at the Shaolin Cultural center in Lusaka, Zambia, June 25, 2023. The Shaolin Temple in Zambia has organized the ...

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Think of Buddhist monks and you probably imagine practitioners sitting stark still trying to quiet their minds. Who knew that the violent martial art kung fu has it’s own ...

The 2nd Aviation Assault Battalion, Unit Ministry Team came together on Fort Bragg, Feb. 4, to help facilitate troopers in team-building activities through Shaolin Kung Fu in a morning physical ...

Meet Shifu Kanishka Sharma: the first Indian to ever train at the Shaolin Temple. Watching ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ changed Kanishka Sharma’s life. Introduced to the film by his driver, he was so ...

Kung Fu masters will be thrilling Easter holiday audiences with their death defying disciplines and deadly weapon skills at Norwich's Theatre Royal. Producer Stephen Leatherland tells SIMON PARKIN ...

A remake of the 1982 classic "Shaolin Temple" plays up drama over kung fu, and stars Andy Lau and Jackie Chan. By The Associated Press HONG KONG — It’s the kung fu classic that launched the career of ...

On the second floor of Far East Plaza in Chinatown, six kung fu students assume warlike expressions and ball their hands into fists. Shaolin Master Shi Yanxu bellows a command: “Mao Bu” — Chinese for ...