WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Shaolin Kung Fu (Chinese: ; pinyin: Shǎolín gōngfū), also called Shaolin Wushu (; Shǎolín wǔshù), or Shaolin quan (; Shàolínquán), is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous styles of wushu, or kung fu of Chan Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word “zen” is a Japanese way of pronouncing “chan", which is the Chinese way of pronouncing the Indian Sanskrit “dhyana” or “sunya", meaning emptiness or void. This is the basis of zen itself – that all life and existence is based on a kind of dynamic emptiness.

Detailed explanation-3: -The influence of Buddhism to China in the 5th and 6th centuries inspired development of martial arts in the Shaolin monastery of China. However, there are also records that a few of the earliest monks of the monastery were already familiar with martial arts even before the arrival of Indian monk Bodhidharma in China.

Detailed explanation-4: -Zen is a school of Buddhism which emphasises the practice of meditation as the key ingredient to awakening ones inner nature, compassion and wisdom. The practice of meditation (Zen in Japanese) as a means of attaining enlightenment was introduced, as we have seen, by the Buddha himself.