Like many kids growing up the early ’90s, Master Shi Yanqing watched Jet Li movies and dreamed of being a hero. Unlike most of those kids, Yanqing lived only 170 miles from the 1,519-year-old Shaolin ...

Within the Shaolin Temple, in the mountains of China’s Henan province, Shi Yanqing lived regimented, disciplined days. He generally woke up around 5 a.m., prayed for an hour, ate, studied, cleaned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Shifu Kanishka Sharma: the first Indian to ever train at the Shaolin Temple. Watching ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ changed ...

Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

About a millennium and a half ago, Buddhist teachings from India began seeping over the Himalayas and into China. Yuan Hong, an emperor of the Wei dynasty, had a Buddhist monastic institution set up ...

Soul of Shaolin tells the story of a boy named Hui Guang who is separated from his mother by war. Taken in by the legendary monks of the Shaolin temple, Hui Gang becomes an accomplished master of ...

Rarely do Westerners get perspectives of Eastern cultures any more revealing than detached images seen through the lenses of tourists’ cameras. Even more rare was the occasion for New Jersey-based ...