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Author: Meir Shahar Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824831101 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
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This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
Author: Meir Shahar Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824831101 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
Author: Geof Darrow Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues) ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 32
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Geof Darrow! YOU'LL FORGET YOUR WORDLE WHEN YOU SEE THE HURDLES THE SHAOLIN COWBOY MUST OVERCOME WHILE TRYING TO PROTECT HIS BABY DRAGON PROTEGE AND IT COULD JUST BE THAT GREATEST DANGER TO THE LITTLE ONE IS THE COWBOY HIMSELF!!!!! YOU WON'T FIND THIS KIND OF STORY IN THE NY TIMES!!! "There's a lot to like about The Shaolin Cowboy. It's whacky, over-the-top, and at points laugh-out-loud funny (for example, the one satellite's name is CHENEY666). If you don't enjoy this book, you're already dead."–Comic Bastards
Author: Toshiki Hirano Publisher: Paw Prints ISBN: 9781439511664 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Three Shaolin princesses are separated at birth, trained in the arts of supernatural and physical combat, and transported as reincarnated warriors into the present day to battle evil.
Author: Geof Darrow Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1630089605 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 136
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Who doesn't like Surf and Turf? Well, what do you do when Surf and Turf doesn't like YOU????????? The Eisner Award-losing and winning, drawing-room talkfest The Shaolin Cowboy returns and will try to answer those questions as the titular hero of the series finds that his road to hell is paved not with good intentions but old nemeses hellbent on bloody revenge ... AGAIN!!!! He fought an army of the shambling dead, but can the Shaolin Cowboy survive a sinister desert town filled with guns, prostitutes, and white supremacists, all run by a crustaceous mafia? Collects Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign #1-4.
Author: Sandy Fussell Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763657026 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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Sensei Ki-Yaga leads the disabled samurai-in-training of the Cockroach Ryu across the Sea of Japan to China, where they study the ways of the Shaolin monks before facing Qing-Shen, a skilled soldier seeking revenge against his former teacher, the Sensei.
Author: Shifu Yan Lei Publisher: Yan Lei ISBN: 9780956310101 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
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For the past 1500 years, the Qigong workout for longevity has been secretly passed from generation to generation at the Shaolin Temple of Zen in Henan Province, China. Now, for the first time, a 34th-generation fighting disciple from the temple shows how to optimize energy, alleviate stress, boost the immune system, and achieve optimum health. The complete workout is shown with easy-to-follow instructions and images, covering everything from stretches and stances to the Instant Health self-massage. This comprehensive guide provides detailed advice on adapting Shaolin Qigong to suit any life stage, and includes training tips, Zen wisdom, and a personalized mind-body workout created especially for the busy Western lifestyle.
Author: Lu Zhouxiang Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429523742 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of Shaolin Monastery from 496 to 2016. More importantly, it offers a clear grasp of the origins and development of Chan Buddhism through an examination of Shaolin, and highlights the role of Shaolin and Shaolin kung fu in the construction of a national identity among the Chinese people in the past two centuries.
Author: David Carradine Publisher: ISBN: 9780804818285 Category : Kung fu Languages : en Pages : 0
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Carradine shares the knowledge he has obtained through his years of practicin kung fu, and offers advice on healing, nutrition, stance training, stretchin class, self-defense, meditation, and philosophy.
Author: Matthew Polly Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101216840 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
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Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American’s quest to become a kung fu master at China’s legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find an isolated citadel populated by supernatural ascetics that he’d seen in countless badly dubbed chop-socky flicks, Matthew instead discovered a tacky tourist trap run by Communist party hacks. But the dedicated monks still trained in the rigorous age-old fighting forms—some even practicing the “iron kung fu” discipline, in which intensive training can make various body parts virtually indestructible (even the crotch). As Matthew grew in his knowledge of China and kung fu skill, he would come to represent the Temple in challenge matches and international competitions, and ultimately the monks would accept their new American initiate as close to one of their own as any Westerner had ever become. Laced with humor and illuminated by cultural insight, American Shaolin is an unforgettable coming-of-age tale of one young man’s journey into the ancient art of kung fu—and a funny and poignant portrait of a rapidly changing China.
Author: Geof Darrow Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1630082023 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 144
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Collects the complete Dark Horse Comics Shaolin Cowboyseries! “A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION, A LITTLE MORE ACTION!!”—Elvis The Saga of one man’s fight against The Walking Dead as you’ve never seen it before! The action never lets up as a chainsaw of events pits the comic world’s favorite Shaolin Cowboy against a legion of gourmets from the fourth level of hell, intent on turning America’s finest youth into an endless Shemp buffet. Strap on your six-guns, gas up your chainsaw, and hang on, ’cuz you aren’t in Downton Abbey anymore. *Featuring bonus material not available before in stores.
Author: Meir Shahar
Author: Meir Shahar
Author: Geof Darrow
Author: Toshiki Hirano
Author: Geof Darrow
Author: Sandy Fussell
Author: Shifu Yan Lei
Author: Lu Zhouxiang
Author: David Carradine
Author: Matthew Polly
Author: Geof Darrow