Chan and the Art of Cleaning – Why we clean after every class in our temple
At the end of each session your Shifu/Teacher will ask you to, collectively as a group, clean your training environment. This will take a few minutes at the end of each session. You may be [...]
Annual UK Shaolin Temple Summer Camp is back
The UK Shaolin Temple is very excited to announce that this year's annual Summer Camp will be in cooperation with Solent University Southampton. Shifu Shi Yanmin and his disciple Shifu Chen [...]
Tai Chi students complete their first form
We are very excited that four of our Tai Chi members have passed their first form. For one and half years they have been working extremely hard on remembering [...]
UK Shaolin Temple Has Reached More Than 80,000 Individuals and Communities
UK Shaolin Temple has reached more than 80,000 individuals and communities in the south west of the UK during 2018 alone. We have smashed our social media targets by gaining over 500,000 followers from organic [...]
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of Great Aspiration, is one of the most well-known Bodhisattva in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. He is also known as Di Zhang Wang Pusa in Chinese and commonly translated as Earth Treasury," [...]
World Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day Celebrations
Last Saturday the UK Shaolin Temple had more than one reason to celebrate. One was in honour of the world's Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day. The temple invited all it's members and the public [...]
Chinese Martial Arts
Chinese martial arts, often named under the umbrella terms kung fu (Chinese: 功夫; pinyin: gōng fu) and wushu (武术), are the several hundred fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. These fighting [...]
Wushu
Wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, although [...]
Sanshou
Sanda or Sanshou is a Chinese self-defense system and combat sport. Sanshou is a martial art which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and [...]
Shuai Jiao
Shuai Jiao is the term referring to the jacket wrestling style of Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding of Hebei Province in the North China. In modern usage, this term is also the general Mandarin Chinese term [...]
Qinna
Qinna or Chin Na is primarily known as the Chinese art of joint locking. Qin means to seize or catch and Na means to hold or control; so Qinna is the art of seizing and [...]
Mantis
Tanglang Quan – Mantis Fist is a style of Chinese martial arts; it was created by a Kung Fu Master Wang Lang about 1600 A.D. The Mantis Fist is very useful in close range combat, [...]
China Trip 2016
Upon arriving at London City Airport, I realised it was dwarfed by it's counterpart, Heathrow Airport. However, this was a great advantage as navigating the airport proved much easier than the previous year. The first [...]
Heart Sutra
般若波罗蜜多心经 The Heart Of Prajna Paramita Sutra 观自在菩萨，行深般若波罗蜜多时，照见五蕴皆空，度一切苦厄。When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the five Skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and [...]
