Legend has it, that more than 1500 years ago, at the Shaolin Monastery in Henan province, China, a monk named Bodhidharm created what is considered today one of the oldest martial arts in existence, ...

The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF recently hosted a group of Shaolin monks from China who were interested in learning how the center integrates traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and ...

Never call the practice of classical Shaolin kung fu a “performance,” says American photographer Justin Guariglia, whose new book, “Shaolin: Temple of Zen,” takes the reader into the cloistered world ...

Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

A group of Shaolin monks have traveled from China to perform in a new show at London's Peacock Theatre called "Shaolin". A few weeks before the show is slated to begin, the monks take time to meditate ...

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 ...

WAN Shan Qing had finally arrived. In defiance of his parents and carrying only a blanket, the 13-year-old had traveled more than 900 miles from his home province on the east coast of China to the ...