Shaolin Temple

[Muaythaiboxer]

that was the hardest part lol, i actually had quite a hard time keeping quite so i would ask monks questions about sutras and stuff like that just to talk a little bit, after a couple days of no talking though you get used to it.

[jpsmith52]

I heard in China that there's only one authentic Shaolin Fighting Monk left. I heard the story in the chinese city of Zhengzhou by an elderly man. At first I didn't believe it but, when I checked it out it was true to my amazement. It's the Shaolin Temple Spiritual Abbot, Master Suxi, the only remaining Shaolin Fighting Monk Legend, Great Master of the Shaolin Temple (pre-communist) China. He's more of a symbol now because of his age and Parkinson's Disease. They did say that he had one student Xiangyang Liu supposedly known as the iron leg.

[Muaythaiboxer]

very cool someone should go talk to him with a tape recorder so his knowlage is not lost and if it is true where is his student?

[jpsmith52]

I don't know where his student is I'am still trying to find him my self. I quickly found out though that Master Liu had won numerous professional fights in both Chinese traditional bare-hand, fighting and modern Sanshou. The guy is a freakin legend in the Henan Province. All I know is that he left China shortly after the professional fights he fought in due to some Chinese governmental reason from what I read in the Zhengzhou Library collection of articles.

[jpsmith52]

If you want to see the Temple Spiritual Abbot and Fighting Monk Master Suxi then you can go to the Temple in Henan and pay your respects. You'll be able to notice him very easily he's the only 80 year old monk at the monastery. I never got to speak to him because when I visited the Temple there were so many tourists standing outside of the Temple and when you went up to him you just sat down a white lotus flower in front of his chair to pay respect to him, bow and then leave.

[Muaythaiboxer]

there is an actual buddhist temple still in china i thought they where all closed down. some of the monks at the temple where i go are from china and they said that the communists where trying to get rid of buddhism in china

[ovine king]

everything that was deemed a threat to their communist ideal was removed.

[scottnshelly]

While we're on the subject of Shaolin temple, does anyone know where the temple is located? What region, province, etc.

[tigerclaw2]

Anyone know of some cheap tours to the temple? I dont want to spend 2 weeks in china and one day at the temple.