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"Shaolin in meinem Herzen "von Shi Yongxin

Shaolin abbot Shi Yongxin," my heart's Shaolin "

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"Shaolin in meinem Herzen" ("my heart's Shaolin")
von Shi Yongxin (Shi), Abt des Shaolin-Tempels, China,
Shanghai Fairview Press article 上海 锦绣 文章 出版社, August 2010
ISBN: 9787545207408
price in China: 39 Yuan

In August 2010, published Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in China, the book " Shaolin in my heart. " In 18 chapters, he recounts his experiences, insights and views about Shaolin. Topics covered include his novitiate, the abbot Xingzheng, the Shaolin martial arts, visiting Vladimir Putin, the relationship of the Shaolin temple to the foreign country, the practice of Chan Buddhism in the temple, etc.

For years, Shi Yongxin reaps for its very business-oriented management have degraded the Shaolin Temple from many harsh criticism and the accusation that the Shaolin Temple from a religious to a purely commercial institution. Well, he is known as "Shaolin monk-CEO" (synonymous with "Shaolin monk directors") are known. Shi Yongxin feels even more misunderstood in this regard. He propagated Buddhism as a part of the worldly life, and sees the meaning of his action is to allow the mixing of Shaolin and society more people to understand Buddhism, and to participate in it.

In his book "Shaolin in my heart" is Shi Yongxin to the public its first glimpse of his personal connection to the Shaolin Temple. An examination of the picture he shows of himself and the Shaolin Temple, is for anyone seriously interested in the Shaolin Temple and the representatives of culture, benefits. Then let the book appear the decisions and actions of the abbot in a different light.

Fortunately, the book is published freely accessible on different websites on the Chinese Internet and can be read by anyone on the original charge. So far, no English or even German-language translation of the book was published. The translations of the book in both languages have been given by Shi Yongxin in order to make the publication of the German translation of the book market is early summer of this year planned

follows Here -. as "appetizers" - an excerpt of the book in German Translation: the chapter "My master, the abbot Xingzheng. In some places, the translation was in brackets and in italics added in as short as possible broader explanations. These are not part of the original text, they should only serve a better understanding of the text. The first half of the chapter relates primarily to the period from early to mid-80s of the 20. Jhds, as -. Still quite timid - revived Buddhism in China, the Shaolin Temple was still under foreign management and had very limited financial resources and Shi Xingzheng as abbot of the temple more often in the county, provincial capital and the capital of the country had to go in order to fight for recognition in political circles, independence and the support of the Shaolin Temple ...

My master, the abbot Xingzheng

From the book "Shaolin in my heart" by Shi Yongxin
, abbot of the Shaolin Temple, China

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My master, the abbot Xingzheng was a great person. At the age of 6 he went to the convent, at age 9, he lost the sight in both eyes. If someone was sitting opposite him, he could not see his face, but only its approximate shape. With such a physical impairment to the Shaolin Temple with the full extent to lead on issues was not easy.

As the monastery was then in an economic crisis, went the Abbot and I walk into the county town of Dengfeng, - the three five Jiao Fen (* Chinese monetary units ) for tickets, we wanted to spend only reluctantly. In the crack of dawn we climbed near the Shaolin Temple on one of cement, bricks, sand or wood-laden trucks, which went swaying and rocking with us in the direction of Dengfeng.
Before leaving we bought about 20 large sesame buns, which we carried with us in order to alleviate hunger. On the road we met a tea room and drank a big bowl of tea that cost two fen. Once at our destination, we often slept in a bath house. When we went too late, we could not stay there. But since we are reluctant wanted to take a hotel, we slept in the seats directly to the railway station, wrapped our bodies provisionally. As supervisor of the abbot appeared to me that I was still a "little monk" ( novice), the rather strange and certainly not socially acceptable. At the station there was a constant coming and going, it was cold and it was messy. I could does not sit right, stand still or sleep and I felt in my heart quite unfortunate. Actually, you could spend a little money for a simple, modest little inn, then it would already be gone, but the master refused. In my heart, although the nested trouble, but my respect was much larger before the Master.

In that time it was against the Beijing Buddhist Association of China is a bathhouse, where one could take to stay for one yuan (Chinese currency unit ) and a bathroom. Went to the master Beijing, he lived there forever, and after several years had passed, the entire staff of the establishment, was familiar with my master. 1985, the Shaolin Temple by revenue tickets. I saw the old abbot than in the past a lot more money to take with them when he went out, and assumed that he would look for a small hotel to stay overnight. When we came to Beijing again, I did not think the old abbot will continue to visit the bathhouse. Although he could not see, he was very adept at remembering street names. The master was me go and look for these baths. He told me: "You go out of the station, some roads are driving by bus to that place, and here and there, there is such and such signs and signposts. I could have him back hard and had no choice but loszugehen. But to bring the master to seek out for the night a small hotel, I told him after my return, "Master, the bath house was already demolished, is it any more." From then on, the master began to spend the night in a small Hotel to go to sleep and, occasionally, in bathhouses. At that time the Shaolin Temple has tens of thousands every year (* Yuan, Chinese monetary unit ) to income.


1983 (* actually on 8/11/1982 ) proclaimed the Ministry of Construction, the first series of National Parks (* 国家 重点 风景 名胜 区 Guojia Zhongdian Fengjing Mingshengqu or 国家级 风景 名胜 区 Guojia Ji Fengjing Mingshengqu = National scenic and historic area of interest ), the Song Mountains are the first among the 36 national parks in China. The Shaolin Temple (* lies in the Song Mountains ) was not listed by the Ministry of the field of religion assigned, but which the National Parks (ie the tourist attractions * ). From the National Park a Shaolin temple management office was established, but what would have been to the Shaolin Temple to give (* independence ), was not given. An actual implementation of religious policy (* law was religious freedom in the exercise of religion in Chinese communism has never been abolished, not even during the Cultural Revolution ) was not really achieved.

So we took the old abbot many times with the Office of the united front in the region Kaifeng, the Office of the united front of the Provincial Party Committee of CCP ( Communist Party of China ), the Office of the United Front of the CPC Central Committee, the State Office for Religious Affairs and the Buddhist Association of China - and we did our work. It was to demand that manage the monks, the monastery itself and to demand that the right to pursue the sale of tickets, is transferred from the Cultural Department of the monks.

Because really this time, the religious policy was not very clear, - the "left" thinking was relatively common practice - I often went with the abbot to the talks (* "self-criticism meetings" ), to which we were invited. Even in our village there were a few influential people who forced us (* because of the efforts by the independence of the monastery ) and were threatening to try to punish us by law and imprison.


A in both eyes nearly blind old monk, accompanied by me 17 - 18 years old novices, turned to the religious policy into action, over and over to the authorities in Beijing and asked for the monks of the Shaolin Temple, the self-administration of the monastery. The Master took the view that the policy of the country was about to improve, but now he wanted to take on this basis rather just the right moment. On the one hand, the old abbot strove for the support of all levels of management, on the other hand, he was always against the policies of the central government and the country kept the peace and maintain compatibility and still pay more attention to the laws and obey.

Ultimately, the paid work out, we finally persuaded and moved the lead. The Panchen Lama is appealing for us to the National People's Congress. The old Mr. Zhao Puchu took our cause to the General Assembly of the National Optional Committee, and the Dharma Master Juzan Zhengguo and laid a lot of good words for the Shaolin Temple.

In the days and nights, when I accompanied my master, I was already aware that the master had a plan in mind: to restore the religious tradition, which a decade long suffered disaster and destruction had, and the development of normal religious activities.


was both the old abbot, as well as courageous. When it came to the restoration and development of the Shaolin Monastery, he was afraid of nothing. . Some people are using (the words ) "spirit of a Bodhisattva and courage of a temple guardian" to describe the old abbot of the temple, the old saying to me: You know, if he had not been, there would be no Pagoda Forest more. Back then the Red Guards to the Pagoda Forest explosives brought to him to blow. He stepped in front of the first and played with the Red Guards for his life, in which he said in a loud voice: "If you want to go beyond the Pagoda Forest, then you must first blasting through me." Ultimately, then, the Red Guards went away frightened, and the Pagoda Forest has not blown up. The best cultural assets of the Shaolin Temple, Buddha statues and the books of the sutras wanted to take away the Red Guards, - he stood before them, held them, and the venerable bronze statues were not taken away. The Red Guards took iron rakes and wanted to scrape down the wall paintings of the temple. Again he was the one who ventured in and prevented them.
Who can imagine the situation, the wall paintings, the sutras, the Buddha statues, the Pagoda Forest Shaolin Temple, all they are still just because an old abbot, whose both eyes were about to complete blindness, protected them with his life? His contribution to the Shaolin Temple was beyond the ordinary. Also this creates a solid basis for the reconstruction of the Shaolin Temple.

The life of the old abbot was certainly not easy. You can say that it would not have given him, there would be no today's Shaolin Temple, he would not have been, perhaps it would be the story of the Shaolin temple stopped. Just because it existed, was the Shaolin Temple, although he saw the most difficult times, a complete continuation of the tradition, including showing the pulse of the Dharma, the pedigree of the historical literature, buildings, etc. The merit of the old abbot was very, very big.

I am deeply impressed by him, in my heart he is forever a dignitary in the history of the Shaolin Temple as it is rare. I often go to the Pagoda Forest, there is my master buried ... ..

Now I have told so much about the history of my master, it is completely from the inside of my heart. I will not, than to say that the Master taught me not only how to endure suffering and how to behave like a man, - let each of his movements and actions to understand me more: only by developing one attains a status that only by developing attains influence only through the development of the Shaolin Temple is worthy of the terms "Holy Land of Buddhism" to bear and "place of origin of the Chan sect.

Everything I do today is done for the reason that the last will of my master come true.

1500 Jahre Shaolin-Tempel sind schon vergangen. Die künftige Entwicklung wird auch nicht immer reibungslos verlaufen, doch wenn ich daran denke, daß mein Meister für den Aufschwung des Shaolin-Tempels keinerlei Rücksicht auf sein eigenes Leben genommen hatte, wovor sollte ich mich dann fürchten?

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line is my master abbot

my master Bank is the abbot, is a great man, 6-year-old monk, 9-year-old basic blind eyes, sitting across individuals, can only see a rough outline, blind face, do not know who. This body, presided over the temple to the size of transaction, of course, not easy.

temple because of economic difficulties at that time, I and the old abbot to Dengfeng County, Delta can not bear to spend a fifth of the tickets, around the temple early in the morning pull up the concrete, pull bricks, Lassa son, truck pull wood, nodding toward Dengfeng rush sway. Journey, we buy before departure Dengfeng twenty few large biscuits, carried a hunger in the encounter on the road tea to drink that's served in big bowls two cents. To the destination, often sleeping baths Son, go late, do not even live on the bath house, hotel and could not bear to live directly in the body of a railway station on the couch wrapped in sleep. As a waiter, I was still a young monk, is a little difficult, but a little does not fit the shelf, the station coming and going, cold and chaotic, and I was not sitting, the station is not, nor sleep, was very awkward . In fact, almost a little hotel stay a few money can be spent, but the master was reluctant, my heart Although it is nest surface gas, but more of his admiration.

year, the Buddhist Association of China, Beijing, opposite the home bath house, with bath plus total sleep spent only a dollar, the master went to Beijing, are living there, a few years , bath house and the staff were my teacher Father familiar. In 1985, the Shaolin Temple with ticket sales, I see the old abbot who take the money out more than ever, to looking for a hotel stay. To Beijing, did not expect to find the old abbot, or bath house. Although he was blind, but he has been the way I remember very familiar, so I went to this master bath house, he said to me, you go out from the train station, take a few road cars to the next where, what signs indicate I could not refuse went. However, in order to master go to a hotel, I came back and said to him: Master, bath house has been demolished, no. Since then, the master began to live in a small bath house, go to a hotel. At that time the Shaolin Temple has more than ten million per year income.

1983 Ministry of Construction announced the first national scenic spots, Song is the first of the 36 national scenic spots. However, there is no cultural relics department to the Shaolin Temple, the religious, but rather allocated to the scenic spots, and scenic spots Management Office established a Shaolin Temple, the Shaolin Temple's no one to give, which are not really implement the policy on religion.

Thus, the old abbot to take us to the Kaifeng area repeatedly United Front Work Department, the provincial United Front Work Department, the Central United Front Work Department, the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, the Chinese Buddhist Association to do the work, asked the monks Temple tube, requiring the ticket franchise handed over to the monks from the heritage sector.

time, because of religious policy is not very clear, "Left" thinking is still relatively popular, and I called to talk several times along the old abbot, and was even influential individual village people hostage and threatened to bring us justice, and detention.

A blind old monk, with my seventeen-year-old monk, for the implementation of religious policy, asked the monks from the Shaolin Temple, in charge, went to Beijing to appeal again and again. Master that the State's policies better, but still have to seize the opportunity grassroots son. The one hand, the old abbot for the support of leaders at all levels, on the other hand has always been and the central, consistent with national policy in the law have to abide by the law.

the end, work pays off, we finally talked into the leadership, the Panchen Lama calls for us in the NPC, the CPPCC National Committee of Mr. Zhao for our conference call, as well as giant like Master, immortal Master, Shaolin Temple are said to help many words.
days and nights in the accompanying teacher, I have came to realize that the master has a blueprint in mind, that is, restore the decade-long calamity destroyed the religious traditions, to carry out normal religious activities.

old abbot both wisdom and courage, in order to restore and develop the Shaolin Temple, he not afraid of anything. Some people use "mind of a Bodhisattva, the Temple Guardian guts" to describe the old abbot. Old temple said to me: You know, Without him, there is no Tallinn.
with explosives should Tallinn then blow up the Red Guards, he was the first one to stand out and your life with the Red Guards and exclaimed: "To bomb Tallinn, first I explode." Result, the Red Guards ran down Tallinn did not deep fry. Shaolin Temple, a group of artifacts, statues, by the book, the Red Guards to take away, he stood up to withstand a few bronze statue never be taken away. Red Guards to take iron rake, we should brush off the temple murals, is his stand up and blocked. Who could have imagined, the temple of the frescoes, the books, statues, Tallinn, is almost blind eyes of the old abbot mad to protect the down? His extraordinary contribution to the Shaolin Temple, Shaolin Temple which also laid a solid foundation for revival!

old abbot's life, it is not easy. We can say that without him there would be no Temple today, without him, the Shaolin Temple's history may be dating. Is also because of him, the Shaolin Temple even in the most difficult times, has also been a complete heritage, including lineage, descent, history, literature, architecture, the old abbot of the Shaolin Temple, very big contribution.


I deeply influenced by him, in my mind, he is always the history of the rare Shaolin monks. I often go to Tallinn, where the burial of my master ... ...

said so many things about the Master, is entirely self-made heart, I am nothing more than to say: Master, not only teach How do I suffer, how a man, his every move made me came to realize that only the development, only status; only development, have impact; only the development of the Shaolin Temple was worthy of the Buddhist Holy Land, birthplace of Zen title.

I am doing today, is to realize the master's wishes.

Shaolin Temple has gone through the year 1500, future development, it will not flat Tan, but as long as the thought of the master to the revitalization of the Shaolin Temple, he could disregard his own life and death, I am afraid What?

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"Seven years Shaolin" - Shanli

"Seven years of Shaolin," the film documentary about Shanli (山 力), the Germans, 1998, at the age of 16/17 years to China and stayed there to learn at Shaolin masters of the laity as well as for monks of the Shaolin Temple martial arts and Buddhism, is unfortunately from Youtube channel disappeared. What a pity! They are, however, on a Dutch Web site, with corresponding subtitles. A part of the movie (full screen mode box below right) is in German ...:

it would be better of course if someone would do it again the complete German version of the film to the public.

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Incesti Italiani Movie

Shi Zhenjun 释 贞 俊

"In motion he is like a wave and at rest as a mountain, like a monkey in the rise and fall like a magpie. In the self-installing it's like a cock and standing like a pine-Stay, with the clamping force as a sheet and turning like a wheel, he is quick like the wind and controlled like an eagle, light as a sheet and heavy as iron. "


Of the outstanding masters of the Shaolin temple are the records of their kung fu film before the middle of last century, an absolute rarity. Thus, only this description is to get an idea of the to receive special features in the style of kung fu master Zhenjun, whose life extended beyond the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. Today, we fortunately have the means of cinematic documentation available to the master of kung fu - if they are ready to show it - to hold and own vision and assessment to the public.




Zhenjun, with the secular surname Li (李), was 1865 in the village Yuwan (玉 湾村), which belongs to the circle Yanshi (偃师 县) Chinese province of Henan, was born. 1872 was Yanshi it in a severe drought that led to high indebtedness of the municipalities and the people barely had enough to survive. His mother sent him reluctantly out of the house and brought him to the "Monastery of the stone sink" (石沟 寺 shigou si) to leave him there as a student in the custody of the dharma Chunyang (淳 阳 法师). This gave the young novice named Zhenjun. 1879 Zhenjun came to the Shaolin monastery and asked the Grand Master Jiran (寂然, 号 晓 空) as his students learn Kungfu may be. He practiced diligently the fist forms Dahong Quan (大 洪拳) Tongbi Quan (Through arm boxing), Pao Quan (Cannon Fist), Xinyiba (intention to) und zahlreiche Waffenformen wie den Bronze-Hammer (pink woodsorrel tong chui), die Mondsichel-Schaufel (Yueya Chan yueya chan) den Doppelhaken (hook shuang gou), den Frühling-Herbst-Säbel (Spring and Autumn Broadsword chun qiu dadao), die Neungliedrige Peitsche (whip jiu jie bian), die 3 Meter lange Schnurpeitsche (string whip sheng bian) uvm Zudem meisterte er Qigong (Qigong), die "Kultivierung des Qi "und Qinggong (dodge), die" Kultivierung der Leichtigkeit ". Sein Kungfu wurde so hervorragend, that he could fly high mountain streams, rock walls, run up and jump even from the state to the ceiling. People called him "Feimaotui (飞毛腿, literally, flying hair leg, in a figurative sense, chasing sprint,). If he were alive today, he might as Traceur a" Shaolin parkour "or" Shaolin free-runner "... known


Dechan Shi said:" A month before his death Zhenjun led before the porch of the Abbot, the cord whip. What moves! What spins for "The golden silk worm Silk, "" The snake licks, "" thunder, lightning and fire! The audience was very dizzy in mind, they clapped their hands and cheered. Even as the crowd of monks applauded him, was heard with one voice a "Aaaaah" Zhenjun had jumped to the top of the roof ridge of Abthalle. The monks and pilgrims were not a little surprised and shouted in unison: "Divine Art Divine Art! . '"


Not only Shi Zhenjun skills in the martial arts were outstanding, but his high ethics, and he taught the monks and the trailer: "Everyone Shaolin disciple must seriously consider the rules of martial arts and protect. It is prohibited to send the weak to cheat to do damage to impede the people and to rob. Anyone who acts contrary to these specifications shall be punished with utmost severity and excluded ".
He wrote the following: "In general I look at the old man as my parents, my siblings the same age as the boys as my children. Why should they ever hurt? "


His teaching was very strict, but Zhenjun loved his students as if they were his sons. In all Members of the order, he enjoyed great respect and appreciation. Was there in the convent dispute, strife or small fights, you had to see him or hear him snort before only dissatisfaction, then all the rage disappeared as the clouds went resolution and the opponents apart piece. All those supporters within and outside the monastery, who learned kung fu from him, called him, therefore, the "principal champion on the altar of Kungfu".


the early twenties of the 19th Century there were four, five "little monks" (小和尚) in the temple. "Little monks" called the children from their parents - mostly from social deprivation - were taken to the temple. They enjoyed as the "young shoots" of the old Shaolin Temple tree the special attention and care of the older monks. To raise these offspring and the attendant needs to be fair, special masters were invited from outside the temple, should inform them. One of these "little monks" Diao Junqing ( 刁俊卿 ), who was meeting them at the age of 4 years in the Shaolin Temple, and had received the Buddhist name Xingshu (行书). How it came about that he was a few years later adopted by Zhenjun as a student is in one of Diao Shanduo ( 刁 山 多, son later in the lay state returned Diao Junqing) held the traditional history


That from the outside in the temple prayer, teach the children taught both martial arts and literature. One day he wanted to go out and carried before the "little monks" to carry out a homework assignment: "In three days I come back, every one of you has to learn the meaning Lankavatara Sutra by heart." After two days now the teacher came back and met the children who practiced Kungfu not yet learned the Sutra, but just fooling around and playing outdoors. At present, the teacher began to beat each of the children with his tobacco pouch on the head, that it is a "light bulb" ('电 灯泡' diandengpao) get . Zhenjun, who had seen the whole thing through the curtain of his room came out, held his teacher and looked at the result of what had happened to.
He asked: "Do the Can Lankavatara Sutra by heart?"
Each of the little monks bowed his head and said nothing, only Xingshu said: "I can them by heart! "Zhenjun let him recite the sutra, and the boy she recited word for word without a mistake, so that the teacher in an embarrassing situation became very embarrassed and was. Zhenjun said only: "This child is with me" From then on, followed Xingshu Zhenjun master, when he was 7 or 8 years old.


With Xingshu and four others were novices Shi Zhenjun 1936 on the occasion of the visit of General Qiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蒋介石) in the Shaolin Temple a demonstration of Shaolin Kungfu. While today, political and other celebrities at the Shaolin Temple is in and out, was in those years of civil war the interest and the visit of such high-level politician and the military more of a specialty.




master Zhenjun knew each other not only with the martial arts but also with Tuina (massage), acupuncture and moxibustion, Dianxue (manipulation of the vital points of the body), pulse diagnosis and the compilation of recipes. Often, he provided in his small treatment room his brothers, if they had been injured in the kung fu training. He had many secret recipes and also produced at its own cost drugs. From the monastery, he went in all directions to the patients home if they needed his help. It is said that he never accepted gifts from them. To its use of formulas that he used in case of injuries or strokes that has been one of Fuyu (福 裕), the abbot of the Shaolin Temple at the time of the Song Dynasty developed "Shaolin Spirit patch" (少林神 膏 shaolin shen gao). It has been used in over 1,000 cases of Zhenjun and was known in a radius of 50 km around the monastery.


As a connoisseur of the three essential elements of the Shaolin Culture - Chan Buddhism, kung fu and medicine - and as one of the most prestigious and highly respected monks Shi Zhenjun took more than 30 years, the responsibility for the affairs of the temple. In 1939 he died at the age of 74.


addition Xingshu (行书) and Dechan (徳 禅) were also Sujing (素 静), Suyin (素 印), Suguang (素 光), Sushuai (素 帅) and Suzhao (素 肇) and Zhang Guangjun (张广俊) to Shi Zhenjun students.
Suguang Shi, born 1891, came at the age of 16 years to the monastery to Zhenjun and was regarded as an exceptionally gifted students. He died in 1917 - so at the age of 26 years - from pneumonia.

mourned in a special measure to Shi Shi Dechan Zhenjun. After Dechan Shi Suguang, the Master, to whom he was brought as a child, having lost his untimely death, became his Zhenjun Tonsurmeister. His life was full of reverence and admiration Dechan for the "grandfather-master." In his grief, he wrote. "The ancestor came from poverty and a mountain of tears supernatural wisdom, he opened the understanding for the difficult sutras. His daily bread was as hard as 100 carrying sticks and bitter as the Huanglian plant. His outstanding Kungfu is among thousands leader. Countless monks, he helped with his medical recovery. His ability is deeply revered. His descendants promise to stick to his role model ... "


Shi Dechan led the big ceremony, with the Shi Zhenjun was buried away in a small cemetery about 1.5 kilometers from the Shaolin Temple.

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The contents of this article were considered the best of my knowledge and belief in their truth content and created. Ultimately, they reflect my reflection of things. References are available upon request.

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How Much Daylignt Do We Gain After December 21

Shi Degen 释 德 根
and his students

sword was in the village Guangdimiao home. In family households were still living his old mother, a sister and a few brothers. One day when he visited his family, had the old mother a cow in the rice mill clamped. She was annoyed that the animal was running so slow and called on sword to drive it. Degen swept with a willow branch on his back, whistling and fired it in a loud voice, the cattle was still slow. The mother said: "If you can not beat it with his hand a little?". Degen slapped the animal with his open hand on the buttocks. It fell. It lay there. It did not get up go away. His hip was broken ...

As a sword a little over 20 years old, he went with some masters brothers to Xi'an, in order to ask the monk ordination. In a street the city has just built a platform fight. Some time later, an old monk came to sword and said: "Come, come and look at the" sword fight went to the podium and stood in front of it. To his left he saw a wooden plaque with the inscription: "The fist beats both banks of the Yellow River" and right a second, on which was written: "The foot of the Shaolin occurs hero." Degen jumped onto the podium and began to persuade the man standing there: "We Drowned into homelessness (monks) do not want to be involved in such worldly matters. We hope you like us not to worry. "He asked that the sentence" The Trampling replace the Shaolin heroes. " The man replied, cocky and angry: "Who builds a platform fight, not afraid to fight. If you have the skills, so you should show it in the fight ring, and the awards to be replaced by itself. " Degen reiterated his request several times, but the man did not listen to him ridiculed him and called him three times directly to the fight. Three times rejected sword, in the fourth call, he agreed, on condition that both opponents were writing that they voluntarily injury and death would take into account and the other should not be prosecuted for it. So it came to fight, sword to its beginning, content merely to avoid the attacks of its subject. When that him in a moment of inattention by surprise with a Fußfeger, Degen responded with a Yinyang-elbow-Hammer (from Xiaohong Quan). This was followed by a "yang" with his right fist in the gut of the arrogant. After a second sword blow placed in the middle of the heart, his opponents fell back on spitting, lying on the ground is still some blood and died. Instantly the applause roared from the crowd, who stood down in front of the podium battle going on, and all praised the courage of the Shaolin martial arts and strength of the sword. The podium was then handed over to fight the fire.

These two stories about the grand master sword like them, starting with two of his direct disciples (Zhu Tianxi and Shi Yongwen, see below), in several slightly different versions in the Chinese internet rounds. They show that the enormous efficiency and penetration of Shaolin kung fu sword - as in the first story - it was at first do not even fully aware of and - as in the second story - could mean for his opponents to quick death.


The excellent Shaolin Kungfu of the master and his impetuous Will to fight for the glory and honor of Shaolin Kungfu, found in many anecdotes and stories reflected. Degen is not only one of the most famous kung fu master of the Shaolin Temple in the last century, it is one of the few masters who have held at that time a crucial role in the survival of the traditional Shaolin Kungfu. To date, his work is of great importance, and his name is in technical discussions about the current traditional Shaolin Kungfu always present.

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Shi Degen's secular name Han (韩) is. He comes from the village Guangdimiao (关帝庙 村) in the district Gongyi (巩义) of the Chinese province of Henan (河南省). Born in 1914, he was at the age of 6 years Chaomi taken to the monastery (炒米 寺). This was in the same county as his home village and was a by-temple of the Shaolin Monastery. There he took master Suduan (素 端), as a disciple and gave him - according to the generations of the Shaolin Temple - the Buddhist name sword. It was probably indicative that it even in early childhood that became champions, famous for its excellent kung fu and was also a very strict teacher. With 16 years of sword came to Shaolin Temple, where he learned as a student of Shi Zhenxu (贞 绪) on Buddhism and Kungfu. The monk's ordination, he was in the city of Xian after his twentieth birthday (1934).


At the invitation of Shi Zhenxu in the 30's Wu Shanlin came (吴山林 Also Wu Sanlin 吴三林), the son of prominent kung fu champion and former Shaolin monk Wu Gulun (吴 古 伦), in the Shaolin Temple, there to teach kung fu. Shi Degen was one of his most ardent disciple. After three years left Wu Sanlin the temple - said he was disappointed by the small number of monks and their character traits. Shi Degen is still in close contact with him have maintained, and after he fell ill later, is to be Wu Shanlin have asked repeatedly for his health. Founded


in 1941 in the temple the "Shaolin school" (少林 中学), Shi took the sword kung fu lessons. Five years later, he was senior coach of the fighting monks Shaolin Temple (少林寺 武僧 教头 shaolinsi wuseng jiaotou). . Part of this 30 warrior monks went into the army in 1948, the external conditions at that time were still difficult, suffered in the first half of the decade of the Shaolin Temple as the whole of China - flared up again during the Japanese occupation, in the second half of the war between the KMT and the Communists, who in 1949 decided in favor of the Communists.


lost after the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1949, the Shaolin Temple by the soon following land reform much of its land ownership and thus a significant Part of his material existence. Like many other monks also went sword back to the lay state in 1950 and lived again in Guandimiao. In the following years he served in various work units of the active region, among other things, he taught the song and dance ensemble for the province of Henan (河南省 歌舞 団).
1958 he was a coach in the district of Dengfeng built Wushu school (登封 县 武术 学校) is involved. During this time the government put more emphasis on the promotion of Chinese martial arts and sword was passed through the districts of Dengfeng, Gongyi and Huashi, in order to attend primary schools to teach physical education teachers and students in Kungfu. Dengfeng from the Department for Education and Sport (登封 教育局) he received in 1962 was a hard job as a teacher of kung fu.
pleasure he took in those years, his student Chen Qiuju (陈秋菊) to class and demonstrate they had some martial arts moves. Chen Qiuju was a gifted, good-looking student from Dengfeng Dajindian that began at the age of 12 years to learn from kung fu swords. In the course of 10 years, she learned from him a number of fist forms, including Xiaohong Quan, Dahong Quan, Meihua Quan, Luohan Quan, Xinyiba, Tongbi Quan, Zui Quan etc. In addition, she taught Meihua sword-spear, sword-Meihua, twelve-membered whip, tiger head hook and some of the rarely seen nowadays only old weapons forms. After she had completed her university studies in 1970, Chen Qiuju moved into Mongolia, where they gave up, unfortunately, the practice of kung fu.


addition to his teaching sword was in this period often participated as representatives of the Shaolin Kungfu compete at the provincial and national level. As a winner of several gold medals he brought so much to the Shaolin Kungfu worldly glory and honor and social recognition to a. Among the prizes taken by buying He also some draft animals to plow the remaining Shaolin monks in the temple, in those times of need, a great help.


also on other areas of culture, extending the efforts of the master, the Shaolin Kungfu alive and spread.
The Office of Culture and Education of the City Dengfeng (登封 市 文教 局) 1962/63 was a written summary on Shaolin martial arts in order. Wang Xinmiao (王欣淼) recorded the oral statements Shi sword, and so was the work "少林 功夫 概要" (Shaolin gongfu gaiyao), which, unfortunately published only internally, offered his time the most comprehensive information on Shaolin Kungfu.
On 08/07/1963 celebrates the film "Burning of the Shaolin Temple" by Fa Lee in Hong Kong made its debut. This film takes Shi Degen movements of the Shaolin fist fight in front of Songshan Shaolin Temple. The money he received for work in the film, he is to the monks of the Shaolin Temple have given.


In the second half of the 60's the population of China when she was about to recover a little of the great famine at the beginning of the decade, the yoke of the Cultural Revolution imposed. For this sword had a special significance: Kungfu has been considered by the Red Guards, as reactionary and could only be exercised in secret and informed. The master showed resistance, to be practiced kung fu in secret and gave his closest pupils continue teaching.


loved the sword tobacco. Even in the hard times of the '60s, he always carried a small tobacco-pipe with him. If one of his students gave him cigarettes, he warned him not to waste so much money for him it was good enough, tobacco leaves to smoke in his pipe.
1968, he was already seriously ill from a lung disease. At the age of 56, he succumbed to his illness in 1970 and was buried in his hometown Guandimiao.

Shi Degen (left) and Li Tianji (李天 骥) - First half of 60s - * 2

Shi Degen controlled more than 100 forms of Shaolin martial arts, boxing, both as well as weapon forms, and a host of principles and techniques. The main elements in his comprehensive Shaolin Kungfu include Luohan Quan (罗汉拳) and Rou Quan (柔 拳). Of particular importance is that sword one of the few heirs to the once top secret Xinyiba (心意 把), was that one martial art that was always previously disclosed outside the Shaolin Temple monks of which were worthy of them. The long Xinyiba on temple walls is reached across the secular Wushu masters, but it should, according to monks of the temple still be a part that is still taught only within the monastic community.

for the Shaolin Temple Shi Degen has played a key role he the Shaolin martial arts, through which the temple had become so famous, yet kept under difficult conditions, maintained and passed on to future generations, - one for the survival of the Shaolin Kungfu not be overestimated earnings.
the very many students, which he gained during his life teaching, there are many secular students - both an attribute to the then political and social situation - on the other hand, was a sufficient interaction with the martial arts world outside the temple walls throughout the history of the Shaolin temple where. Many of the masters who trusted in today's time to right as heir and thus Representatives of the traditional Shaolin Kungfu are standing tradition in sword: either they have learned directly from him (now "old" or "Senior") or of its most outstanding students (the younger). The best-known students of Shi Degen include:

• Guiwu Yang 扬 桂 吾 It was 1931 in the circle Sanjiadian Yanshi the province Henan born. His parents had removed a pharmacy not far from the Shaolin Temple and is one of the wealthier people in the area. Degen often came by in their business and as the young Yang was a bit weak, his father urged him to learn from martial arts sword. He was at the age of 14, his pupil, and received the Buddhist name Xingyi (行 意). According to him, he is the earliest school of sword. He also learned from Wu Shanlin Kungfu, also from the Shaolin Shi Dechan medicine. He also worked intensively with Chan Buddhism. He stayed with swords until 1970, after which he was active until his retirement in 1983 in a work unit. In a film documentary about the Shaolin Temple in 1982, a section of his martial arts captured for posterity: it shows him in the venerable Thousand-Buddha Hall of the Shaolin Temple in teaching of Xinyiba and is probably the first filmed record of Shaolin Xinyiba at all. One of his most prominent disciple Shi Dejian (徳 建), is now head of a small temple in Sanhuangzhai near the Shaolin Temple. Another of his students, Hu Zhengsheng (胡正生), now leads a kung fu school (International Traditional Wushu Shaolin Temple Institute) in the village of Shilipu, also just a few kilometers from the Shaolin Temple. Yang Guiwu died this year.

• Jucai Yang 杨 聚 才 born in 1932 in Dengfeng, he learned as a child poverty. With ten Years he left home, was adopted at the Shaolin Temple Master of Xingzhi (行 智) as a student and received the Buddhist name Yongding (永定). Shi Degen he learned Pao Quan, Luohan Quan, shapes, and more saber-1948 he left the temple and joined the Communist Liberation Army. After demobilization he worked as a sports trainer for the city of Dengfeng. In his later years, Shi Guo Song (释 果 松) one of his students - because of the condition, however, Yang's only for a short time. At the age of 57 years Jucai Yang died in 1989.

• Diao Junqing 刁俊卿 He lived from 1916 to 1989. At the age of 4 years he entered the Shaolin Temple. As a (great-grandson) of the students considered highly Shaolin monk Shi Zhenjun he received the Buddhist name Xingshu (行书). Wu and Shi also Gulun Zhenxu among his teachers. By many he is considered a master of "Bodhidharma Sword" shape. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he went back to the lay state. He is the father of Shanduo Diao (刁 山 多) - formerly Shi Yongzhi (释 永 智), - an internationally-known secular Wushu master and owner of a large school near the Yongtai nuns temple. Diao Shanduo is one of the most prominent of the traditional Shaolin Kungfu. Kungfu students in Europe and America he is mostly known for its worldwide teaching kung fu movies.

• Wang Tianren 王天仁 He entered 1937 in the Shaolin Monastery. His master, Shi Zhenxu gave him the Buddhist name Suxiang (素 祥). Later, Wang was in the army and received military honors as a paratrooper. In 1952 he joined the Communist Party of China. After his retirement in 1980 he devoted himself more time to Kungfu (lessons, tournaments, clubs).

• Cunliang Liu 刘 存 良 Liu, born in 1934, was a lay student of Shi Degen from Dengfeng. His "specialties" include Xiaohong Quan, and Paochui Xinyiba.

• Liu Zhenhai 刘振海 He comes from in the circle Dajindian Dengfeng, was born in 1933 and is famous for its Shaolin Xinyiquan and Liuhequan. He wrote several books, including one about Shaolin Wushu (少林 武术 拳 械 录), which was considered by the Chinese Wushu Association with awards. In 1983 he was in the range of "10 outstanding senior master of the fist fight" ("十佳 老拳师") included.

• At Zhenxi 安振喜

• Xiqian Wang 王 西 干 Wang 1984, a book written about Xiaohongquan.

• Gen Heying 耿 合 営 comes from Dengfeng and is also known for his books on Shaolin Kungfu.

• Jinbao Zheng 郑 进 宝

• Yinzhang Li 李 寅 长 from Guandimiao

• Han Shubin 韩树斌 also made Guandimiao

• Shi Yongwen 石永文 born in 1945 into a family where both the martial art and the medicine was augeübt, he already began at a young age to learn kung fu from his father. It was followed by other masters in the 60s to Yongwen Degen asked to accept him as a student. During the Cultural Revolution, he often drove from his home city of Kaifeng to Swords to Guandimiao to learn from him. When that it no longer teach because of his illness was, he sent him to Shanlin Wu, who taught him Xinyiba and Pao Quan. Later, you still got to Shi Shi Yongwen Suxi (素 喜 大师) Tongbi Quan and sword forms. Shi Xingzheng (行 正 法师), he was accepted as a lay disciple. Since it from him the Buddhist name Yongwen received, he changed his original name Xinwen (喜 文) in Yongwen. Also he took the Bodhisattva vows. Shi Yongwen one of the outstanding representatives of traditional Shaolin Kungfu in all respects with a very rustic style. He supported the Shaolin Temple in many ways, for example, addressing himself to the collection of materials and research in relation to traditional Shaolin Kungfu and participated in important official presentations of the Shaolin Temple (Taiwan visit 1500-year anniversary, etc.) took part to traditional Shaolin Kungfu show off. He wrote numerous books on Shaolin Kungfu and holds a kung fu school in Kaifeng.

• Zhu Tianxi 朱天喜 Born in 1947 Tianxi Zhu is one of the most respected representatives of the traditional Shaolin Kungfu, which is passed on at his school in Zhengzhou. He is also dedicated to the study of kung fu, Chan and Medicine at the Shaolin Temple and published several books on Shaolin Kungfu, including one on Luohan Quan. He developed "Shaolin" medicine of the Henan Health Care Products Co.Ltd (whose chairman he is) and is sold both belong to the Shaolin Temple as well as use of multiple providers on the Internet. His school and he received numerous awards and honors. Outside of China it is now quite well known and may be some prominent protagonists of the Shaolin Kungfu in the U.S. call his disciples. - Before Zhu Tianxi (buddh. Name: Xingzhen 行 真) learned by Shi sword kung fu, he was one of the favorite pupil of He Ru (何如), a master of Shaolin Taizu men in the province of Henan. He also Futong (何 福 同), the great Taizu-old master was very fond of him and encouraged him. Zhu was also a pupil of Mingyue Chen (陈 明月), an old friend of Shi Degen, who recommended his pupil to the Shaolin Masters. Thus began Zhu about 1965 to learn from kung fu sword and stood with him some hard time. Zhu's own claims that he was the last close disciples, the sword has adopted - the students, who closed the door (关门 弟子) ...

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Shi Yanxiang (释 延 祥)

and his students

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In the summer of 2010, Yanxiang master the basic forms of Shaolin have Fohanchui who learned his students now recorded on video. Here two of them are:

And such a partner form with weapons:

Here the master himself:

more of his videos on Youtube:

Shaolin Fohanchui 3

Shaolin Fohanchui 4

Shaolin Fohanchui 5

Shaolin Fohanchui 6

Shaolin Fohanchui - tushou duilian

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THE TRAINING HALL - II

or

"a moment temple everyday"

The training hall at the Shaolin Temple is a simple structure in the east wing of the temple, the square yards with the bedrooms and living rooms of the monks in front. If necessary, they are also used as a screening room for martial arts performances. Prominent visitors come, they will be equipped with seats and sometimes with ribbons, curtains, etc. decorated. Shortly before the visit of
Jackie Chan was renovated in autumn 2009 a part of the hall floor, with a little "scrap heap" next to the hall was built. While in the hall some monks fight their kungfu performances were rehearsing for the next few days expected appearance, were other less spectacular tasks to ...

appear An antique vehicle ...

... and parks. Watchdog is watching.

turn once, please!

worker works, ...

... Watchdog is watching.

And what may Dongdong up there?

The Little Warrior Monk and his "colleagues" to make himself useful ..

... and have your fun there.

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Oh, who is there?


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The beautiful new hall floor *

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"Heiter HOLINESS "

took the end of August / beginning of September 2010 Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Songshan Shaolin Temple of China, a trip to Austria. He met representatives of a number of European schools and centers for . Shaolin Kungfu Shaolin culture, respectively, with them the "Shaolin Europe Association to set up - a further step in the efforts of the Shaolin Temple, Shaolin means authorized by it centers on an international level, more control over the use of called "Shaolin" to obtain. At the time of creation were not set to meet quality criteria the selection of the founding members seemed to undergo more relational or other criteria. (video below)

Activities Shi Yongxin in the political and cultural policy included the visit to the European Forum Alpbach (Tirol) on which he held in the Political symposium on "Geo-political paradigm shift" a speech and a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Faymann and Cardinal Schönborn.

Another main point of the journey Shi Yongxin was a meeting with the representatives of the Austrian "Schletterer International Group, which he discussed the construction of a Shaolin spa resorts in the vicinity of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in China. (video below)

At the end of his journey Shi Yongxin was also a short visit to Berlin, during which he, on 4 September a number of hours in the Shaolin Temple Germany stayed there and made a speech. He was at times a rather hilarious impression

striking about the public presentation of the abbot in Europe was the constant emphasis on its superior position in Chinese Buddhism ("the highest Buddhist dignitary of China"), and its stylization Adorationsobjekt a part of those who have a particular interest in its marketing. In China, Shi Yongxin not act as a "holiness" and is also not as "the highest Buddhist dignitary. Rather, it is through his extraordinary "Kungfu" in the political and economic area has become one of the most influential abbots of the country and now experiences corresponding courting, but still he is one of the most controversial Buddhist dignitaries of China - not least just because of its proximity to power. Currently, he is still in the process - beyond all worldly eminence - to fight for a prominent role as honest representatives of Buddhist values, respectively. to earn. further


following two films, and written articles on Shi Yongxin links visit to Austria. They have in common is that they very different perspectives and interests related to Shi Yongxin and reflect the Shaolin Temple, which you should consider when their consummation. Each of these contributions can also be useful in its own way a little contemplation about power, status, and their symbolism.

Of greater importance, however, be for any serious follower of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, the speech at the Alpbach Forum, to find its English translation on the homepage of the Shaolin Temple in China. It highlights the current self-understanding of the Shaolin Temple, respectively. his abbot, points to the aims of his action and, particularly in regard to the current redistribution of power relations in our small Globus interesting ...

The abbot of the Shaolin Temple to visit Austria in August 2010, a report of the ORF:

Mr. Schletterer, the "Pope of Shaolin" and "modesty at a very high level" in a promotional video from Schletterer:

homepage of the Shaolin Temple (in English): Shi Yongxin's visit to the European Forum Alpbach (with link to text of his speech)


website of Raiffeisen Landesbank Tirol (page 5): Visit and presentation by Shi Yongxin
meinbezirk.at (Manfred Hassl): Visit Shi Yongxin in Austria
Salzburger Nachrichten: Meeting with Faymann and Cardinal Schönborn
homepage Erzdiöseze Vienna: Meeting with Cardinal Schönborn
Matrei Osttirol: Shi Yongxin in Tirol
Agency pro.media: Schletterer & "Shaolin Qi resort" - 1
Tiroler Tageszeitung (tt.com): Schletter & "Shaolin Qi resort" - 2
Homepage Rolf Deyle: Establishment of Shaolin Europe Association
Shaolin Europe Association

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THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE

One of the main tasks of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is the provision, protection and preservation of cultural and natural sites of outstanding value to humanity. To this end, they adopted the 1972 Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which, with 187 signatory countries of the world's most important legal international instruments. Since 1997, UNESCO also a list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, for whose protection they adopted the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The inclusion in the UNESCO list of cultural heritage of humanity Prestige offers a high priority for regular monitoring of cultural heritage, support in terms of its preservation and its management, staff training, and if necessary financial resources. The protection of the site remains the responsibility of his native country that it also has an appropriate legal and regulatory framework to offer and put in regular intervals, the UNESCO report on the condition of the site needs.

Shaolin monks & Mona Lisa * 1

The Shaolin temple for many years sought to be recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The efforts to host the temple was later followed by the list of World Heritage sites as a further objective of a recording of Shaolin Kungfu in the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

First interest in a recognition as world cultural heritage of the temple was in 2001. It began with a "land consolidation" to: the "Shaolin village" called collection of kung fu schools and retailers in the immediate vicinity of the temple, which used the names "Shaolin" for their commercial purposes, was dissolved - instead were green areas created.
In 2002 began the Shaolin temple to try to officially begin the application process for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. First, had the necessary documents are submitted to the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, as the application takes place at UNESCO through the respective home country. In the same year was held by UNESCO, a conference for the presentation of World Heritage sites, to their guests was also Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Shaolin Temple. His speech was recorded by both the UNESCO and the Chinese government with interest. The desire of the Shaolin Temple for recognition as world cultural heritage learned worldwide support from Individuals, institutions and the media.

before from 2004 prepared the neighborhood near the Shaolin Temple, Dengfeng City, an application for status as a world cultural heritage for a collection of various monuments, which included the Shaolin Temple. It has taken many measures to repair and protect the monuments involved, a monitoring system developed and created an appropriate legal basis. The Shaolin Temple in 2004, underwent the most extensive renovation of his campaign's recent history.

was in this context for the Shaolin Temple for the inclusion of the Song Mountains in the Global Network of Geoparks UNESCO on 13 February 2004 by interest. The Geopark predicate UNESCO is landscapes and geological formations of particular scientific interest, exceptional beauty and rarity given, including their related sites of ecological, cultural and archaeological value.

Over the years, had Shi Yongxin claim in relation to World Heritage CANDIDATES MUST always greater use of the relevant government bodies for the Shaolin Temple, where his side were his political and religious authorities and his many political contacts helpful. Also has been involved in support of the application, the noble public relations firm Lehman Communications in London, a study of should prepare the Shaolin Temple as the birthplace of Chan Buddhism, with unlimited access to the archives of the temple.

Shaolin Monks - UNESCO * 2

for inclusion of a cultural object in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO, each country may only be one per year single proposal submitted. After 2001, the Kunqu and 2003, the musical instrument Guqin been recognized by UNESCO as world intangible cultural heritage, the Shaolin Kungfu in China's short-listed for the proposal was in 2005. On 26 April 2005, but the vice-minister of culture Zhou Heping instead the nomination of the Uygur Mukam music known. Perhaps the reasoning was more secure and thus more promising.
China, which has given its size and diversity of cultures, an enormous wealth of intangible cultural treasures, and at the national level early effort for their preservation and protection was, at that time a strong and legitimate interest in more awareness and support these cultural treasures at the international level. The first list of intangible cultural heritage of China with no fewer than 501 items on 6 January 2006 in the China Cultural Relics News "published, as in her 279th Item Shaolin Kungfu named (nominated by the city of Dengfeng). This list was not compatible with international standards of UNESCO, and so on 20 May 2006 by the Chinese "State Counsil" published a second list with 518 elements. This list is as Shaolin Kungfu 289th Items in the "sports acrobatics and" is given and it is here in the company of Taiji, Wudang martial arts, Meihuaquan, monools traditional Chinese wrestling and football. After publication of the second list, a worldwide discussion broke out on the determination, definition and preservation of the intangible world cultural heritage, with its "theoretical and political minefields Pitfalls.

Shi Yan Zhuang - UNESCO * 3

2008 gave China the historical monuments in the Song Mountains, among which is the Shaolin Temple is, as a an application to UNESCO for World Heritage recognition. In May the following year, Shi Yongxin was traveling with a high-profile delegation of monks and martial monks of Shaolin Temple, the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris in France to forced there, the cultural and spiritual values of the Shaolin arts to present and the "International Festival of Cultural participate in diversity "of UNESCO. The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at its meeting but announced in June 2009, the rejection of the application submitted last year. They failed because of an unauthorized multi-application, which was caused by deficiencies in communication between the Chinese government with the application responsible agencies.

Shaolin Monks-UNESCO * 4

The new application one year later under a lucky star. On the 34th Session of the World Heritage Committee UNESCO, from 25 July to 3 August 2010 in Brasilia, Brazil took place, the decision was made: the UNESCO officially announced that the "Historical Monuments of Dengfeng in the" heart of heaven and earth "(" 天地 之中 ")" to the list of world cultural heritage was. In its original version, this group of historic buildings is simply referred to as "Historic Monuments of the Song Mountains" and included two other monuments.

the "center of Heaven and Earth" includes the following 11 sites, located within a radius of about 40 sq km at the foot of Song Mountains near the city of Dengfeng in Henan Province of the People's Republic of China are:

• the architectural complex of the Shaolin Temple, to be counted alongside the Shaolin Temple and the Temple of the founding patriarch, and the Pagoda Forest,

• Zhongyue the temple,

• the Songyue Temple Pagoda,

• the Huishan temple

• the Songyang Academy,

• the Dengfeng Observatory,

• historical watchtowers Taishi Que , and Qimu Shaoshi Que Que.

been recognized as world cultural heritage historical monuments Dengfeng of some of the best examples of ancient Chinese architecture represented in the field of religion, science, technology and education. Its construction extended over a period of nine dynasties, respectively. 2000 years ago. UNESCO sees them both reflections of the different types of views of the "center of Heaven and Earth" and the power of the mountain as a center of religious devotion.

Shaolin Temple * 5

Temple of Founding patriarch * 6

Pagoda Forest * 7

came to the decision of UNESCO in the media are not at first sight unjustified fear that for Visitors from the Shaolin Temple, the declaration of the temple would have as a world cultural heritage adverse financial consequences, namely a strong increase in the price of the admission fee. For example, increased in the case of Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan province after recognition as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the ticket prices by more than double. In 1997 recognized as a World Heritage City Lijiang in Yunnan, the local authorities have demanded last year with the help of roadblocks by the additional tourists' fees to protect the old town. " For this year as a UNESCO World Heritage recognized Danxia landscapes have been justified in advance of price increases.

The Shaolin Temple but there are plenty of other, more interesting ways to use the newly acquired status in material terms, especially since the entry fee for the Shaolin Temple is already on the top of the range for ordinary Chinese temple. The largest share of the ticket prices of Buddhist temples in China also receives the state that it does sometimes turn to pay for renovations or subsidized. The time in which the Shaolin Monastery of the low proportion of revenues from entrance fees, that belongs to him, was dependent on is long gone, and so it is no wonder that Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Shaolin Temple as now belongs to the advocates of the abolition of entrance fees for Buddhist temples. rejected
A few days before the official announcement of the inclusion of the Shaolin Temple in the list of world cultural heritage Qian Daliang, general manager of the "Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets Management Center of Shaolin Temple "for a price hike from the entrance fees. Shi Yongxin was also known in later interviews, an increase in entrance fees do not intend. He stressed that the decision of UNESCO for the monks was indeed a privilege, but also the pressure and the responsibility to protect the temple, reinforcing. He also announced that the Shaolin Temple still seeking recognition of Shaolin Kungfu as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Photos 1-4: Voyage of the Shaolin monks in May 2009 on the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France
Video: Excerpts from the presentation of the martial arts Shaolin monks in the UNESCO

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