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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]