Shaolin Monastery
The Stele Forest
(2008 年)
The small stele forest of the Shaolin Temple has more than 20 provided with inscriptions, stone tablets, which come from different eras. The spectrum ranges from their temporal origins of the modern era of the Qing dynasties (1644-1911) and Ming (1368-1644) to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Among them are stelae in addition to deserving Chan master of the Temple and Chinese donors also such major Japanese monks and supporters of Shaolin culture, and 3 tablets of stone-American martial arts students. All of these stone monuments are full of history and stories. Here are presented four of them.
(2009 年)
One of the Yuan-temporal stele is from a Japanese Buddhist monk with the Chinese name Yuan Shao (邵元, 1295-1364). In Japan he put the "East-luck Temple (东 福寺 Dongfu si) from the monastic vow, and he later served as the abbot" Chan Monastery of the upright teaching "(正法 禅寺 zheng fa chan si). He was a student of Da Zhi (大智, 1290 - ca 1366), a renowned Japanese master of the Chan school. Da Zhi had traveled to China from 1312 to 1325 and in several monasteries in the Chan Buddhism studies, where he also spent some time in the Shaolin temple to learn fist and stick fighting. He returned to his home there and spread the teachings of the Chan and the martial art of Shaolin monks.
1327, two years after the return of Da Zhi, traveled to China Yuan Shao his students to also learn the Chan Buddhism "at source" and to continue the work of his master. After many months he had wandered through China and visited famous monasteries in 1329 he came to the Shaolin Temple. It was founded by Master Xi An (息 庵, 1284 - 1340) was adopted as a student and learned from him in the years to Chan Buddhism and Shaolin Gongfu. In the temple he was first secretary (书记 Shuji) deals, after a while he even became president (首座 shouzuo - the second highest rank in the temple hierarchy) appointed.
Xian was ordained in 1336 as abbot of the temple. The following year he gave Yuan Shao and the production of a large iron bell for the temple in order. The bell is still in existence and is in the front of the residence of the abbot (方丈 室 fang zhang shi).
When the monk Zhaogong (照 公), who had led in 1320 as abbot of the Shaolin Temple, died, they asked Yuan Shao to write an inscription for it. This was carved into a stone tablet erected for the monks of the pagoda inscription. The pagoda is in the middle of the Pagoda Forest (塔林 ta lin).
died in 1340 the abbot Xi An. Yuan Shao was asked to in memory of his master to make a stele inscription. The large stone tablet bearing the title: "Stele of the Buddhist cultivation of the Chan master Xian" (息 庵 禅师 道行 碑 xi'an chanshi daoxing at) but it is fortunately survived to this day and is the Stele Forest of the temple
. total spent Shaoyuan 21 years in China, where one respected him as a great master of Chan Buddhism and the martial arts as well as calligraphy and painting. He returned in 1347 to Japan. Even today, he is in the temple as one of the outstanding figures in the history of cultural exchanges between China and Japan honored.
Another important stele is that of the Yuezhou Wenzai (月 舟 文 载 禅师, 1454 - 1526), a famous Chan master of the middle Ming Dynasty. At the age of 13 he went into homelessness and learned in many of the great monasteries of China. In the "Temple of White Pagoda" (白塔 妙 应 寺 ta bai si Miaoying) in Beijing, he studied for 30 years, the Tripitaka (the Buddhist canon). In 1497 it the monks of the Shaolin Temple asked the first time, as abbot, the monastery to lead, but he refused. Other unsuccessful request of the Monks followed. Finally, he was willing to accept the office, on condition that the emperor giving him an injunction. This he received and he was from 1510 to 1522 the abbot of the Shaolin Monastery. In his tenure, he reorganized the Mönchsgmeinschaft, had drum tower, Abtresidenz, Lixue pavilion, kitchen and storage rooms to renovate and build on the plateau Ganlu a temple hall. Yuezhou Wenzai to have had more than one thousand students. He is particularly revered today as the protagonist of the Shaolin stick fighting. In the stele corridor of the Pavilion Ciyun because there are still another stone tablet from him that those in the Stele Forest of historical relevance even exceeds, as it is the first document, the "patron saint" of the Shaolin Temple - Vajrapani / Jinnaluo (紧 那 罗) - armed not with the usual thunderbolt, but with a stick is.
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Among the most important pillars recently include those of the Japanese Zhong Daochen (宗 道 臣, jap .: Doshin Sun), who as a young man in his 30s of the 20th century had learned at the Shaolin Temple Gongfu. He returned to Japan and founded the Union for the boxing of the Shaolin Temple / Shorinji Kempo (Chinese: 日本 少林寺 拳法 联盟 quan fa Riben shaolinsi lianmeng). In 1979, he visited with a delegation of about 300 people, the Shaolin Temple - an event that learned a lot of attention and constitute a further element in the normalization of the disturbed due to the traumas of war between China and Japan. A year later when he repeated his visit, a stele was erected to commemorate the friendship of the people of both countries, deceiving their modest size of their semantic content of time.
also the modern age and become a success story abroad represents a large stone tablet, the inscription written in both English and in Chinese. It was built in 2004 by Shi Yong Xin, the abbot of the Shaolin temple in honor of the organization United Studios of Self Defense Inc. (USSD Inc.) and its founder Steve DeMasco and Charles Mattera.
The USSD is a U.S. organization that deals with the martial arts - primarily "Shaolin Kempo Kung Fu" - is concerned and has departments spread over 145 "studio" called schools. Steve DeMasco was as the author of the book "The Shaolin Way" (title of the German translation: "The Way of Shaolin") is known, in which he talks about his difficult youth in New York City's Harlem and the positive influence of the Shaolin culture on his life. Since 1997, he regularly travels to the Shaolin Temple. Shi Yongxin took it as a direct disciple and gave him the name "Yandi". In 2009 he appointed him as his most important American students. Meanwhile DeMasco has split from USSD and the "Steve DeMasco's Shaolin Studios" chain (SDSS) with so far 11 on three U.S. states distributed "studio" set up. A special feature of DeMasco is the extreme emphasis of awards, honorary titles, "merits" in its self-representation and the implementation of this standard form of "reward system" in its studios.
The first trip of the USSD and visit the Shaolin Temple was held in June 2000 and had 168 participants. The group was the abbot of the Shaolin Temple dignitaries welcomed with great honors. The USSD-wire provided Shi Yongxin a letter from the U.S. Congress (Signed: Christopher Shea) that the congratulations (1999) to his Abtweihe and thank for accepting DeMasco Mattera and as a student and for the contribution to the advancement of relations between China and the USA included. Even a donation for the renovation of the bell tower was Chardonnay Barrique. Steve DeMasco the abbot promised to arrive on a visit in the following year with an even larger group. In 2001 he visited the temple with a group of 175 tour operators. In August 2003, the USSD then sponsored a 2-day "Shaolin Extravaganza Show" in the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Kaliforien, USA, who arrived to a delegation of Shaolin monks, led by Shi Yongxin. According to the USSD 2000 students and instructors took part in its organization to the event.
In June 2004, the third largest number of participants, and 300 people visit to China of the USSD instead, which also led to the Shaolin Temple. Given the price of 4500 U.S. dollars per person for a trip of 12 days to the popular destinations in China (including 2 days in the Shaolin Temple), it is also an amazing sales performance. During this visit, Shi Yongxin, the abbot had built in honor of the USSD and its protagonists a stele. The solemn ceremony dedicated to the stele in the course of Shi Yongxin was, was the highlight of this trip USSD. The large stele standing in front of the Hall of the four Heavenly Kings ", a very fitting location ...
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