Following is a transcript of the video. - For me, real fighting is not really like this. Shifu Yanzi: My name is Shifu Yanzi. Shifu Yanzi is the Shaolin Temple name. Since 1983, I went to Shaolin ...

AS THE sun rises over the foothills of Mount Song, thousands of young martial artists are kicking, punching and spinning spears and swords in unison on a huge open parade ground. They have flocked ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Think of Buddhist monks and you probably imagine practitioners sitting stark still trying to quiet their minds. Who knew that the violent martial art kung fu has it’s own ...

A remake of the 1982 classic "Shaolin Temple" plays up drama over kung fu, and stars Andy Lau and Jackie Chan. By The Associated Press HONG KONG — It’s the kung fu classic that launched the career of ...

Despite a long and storied career of great martial arts films, Jet Li has only one old-school kung fu movie role under his ...

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The hushed silence that descends over the old courtyard inside the Shaolin Temple carries the expectation of something magical. Abbot Shi Yongxin, a rotund Buddhist monk with a shaved head and a ...

Prior to moving to San Diego, Dr. Craig D. Reid was a freelance entertainment writer in Los Angeles for Reuters. He is currently completing The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s for ...

Kung fu master Shi Dechao can swing his 22-pound "monk's spade," an ancient Chinese shovel, like a majorette twirling a baton. His lightning punches, in a style the ancients called Iron Fist, generate ...

In the West, few phrases conjure up mystical musings on martial arts like “The Shaolin Temple” or “The Shaolin Monastery.” Founded over 1500 years ago and named for the wooded Song mountains which ...