Shaolin Monastery is the most famous temple in China, known for his kung fu fighting monks. With an amazing achievement of strength, flexibility and endurance of pain, global reputation as a Shaolin monk soldiers for major Buddhist. But Buddhism is generally regarded as a religion of peace, with an emphasis on principles such as avoiding violence, vegetarianism and self-sacrifice even to harm others. How, then, the monks of the Shaolin temple has become a warrior?
Shaolin history began about 1,500 years ago when a stranger arrives in China on Western lands ... Originally Shaolin Temple: Legend has it that C. 480 BC, a wandering Buddhist teachers came from India to China. His name Buddhabhadra, also known as Batuo Fotuo or in Chinese. According to the then Chan (or Zen in Japanese) Batuo Buddhist tradition teaches that Buddhism is best derived from teacher to student, not through the study of Buddhist texts. In the year 496 of Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen provide funds Batuo in a monastery in the mountains sacred to make. Shaoshi in the Song Mountains, 30 miles from the imperial capital of Luoyang. This is the Shaolin Temple (Shao lin Shaoshi of the mountain,. which means "garden").
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