WAN Shan Qing had finally arrived. In defiance of his parents and carrying only a blanket, the 13-year-old had traveled more than 900 miles from his home province on the east coast of China to the ...

(CNN) — A young Shaolin monk runs horizontally across a wall, intense concentration, and perhaps a hint of astonishment, visible in his face. Four other trainees at a martial arts academy near the ...

Today I had the opportunity to meet a real life 34th generation Shaolin monk in NYC’s Chinatown to practice kung fu and ...

Though Shi Yan Ming is a world-renowned kung fu master, he was lucky to survive a poverty-stricken childhood as a peasant in China. He was born in 1964 in Henan Province, the heart-center of the ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Fans of Chinese kung fu could soon learn the oldest form of the martial art via mobile games, thanks to some tech-savvy monks at the world-renowned Shaolin Temple. Shaolin ...

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 ...

Legend has it, that more than 1500 years ago, at the Shaolin Monastery in Henan province, China, a monk named Bodhidharm created what is considered today one of the oldest martial arts in existence, ...

On the second floor of Far East Plaza in Chinatown, six kung fu students assume warlike expressions and ball their hands into fists. Shaolin Master Shi Yanxu bellows a command: “Mao Bu” — Chinese for ...

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 ...

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Editor’s Note: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. A young Shaolin monk runs horizontally across a ...