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Shaolin Martial Arts
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Very little is known about the Shaolin Temple and its training regime. The most credible history states that when Emperor Hsiao Wen of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) located his capital at Loyang, he built the Shaolin Temple on the northern side of Shao-shih Mountain south of Sung Mountain in Honan Province. Here it was that Bodhiruchi translated Buddhist scriptures into Chinese, where Tamo was reputed to have
stayed, and where Hsuan Tsang (because it was "a very quiet place") wished to repair on his return from India with more than six hundred volumes of Sanskrit scriptures.
The Temple had twelve upper and lower courts and was ringed almost completely by mountains, festooned with bamboo, cassia and cedar trees, and laced with
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