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The History Of The Shaolin Religion

Shoaling is an ancient Chinese Religion that has been under a shroud of secrecy for more than a thousand years. The Shoaling order was begun in about 540 A.D. by an Indian Buddhist priest named Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma traveled to china then taught these monks moving exercises to help enhance their Chi-flow and to build their mental and physical strength. These movements were also based on the movements of the main 18 animals in Indo-Chinese iconography. These exercise movements later became martial arts. The name "martial arts" came about be because the monks did their excursuses on the martial side of the temple. The shoaling philosophy began with Buddhism. Even though the Buddhist religion does not condone violence, the monks used the martial arts to protect themselves form invasion. An excellent example of this happening was in the 1300's when the Shoaling monks had to defend themselves against the Mongols. As a result of this the art gains a touch of softness and it reaches its height.

The population of shoaling monks has grown but very gradually. For a religion that is a thousand years old, it still does not have 1% of the followers that Christianity has.

The Shaolin/Buhdist religion has many different sec

The next class was the disciples. They demonstrated that they were worthy of learning the arts of the shoaling temple. Their first line of study was of the Shoaling arts of war and medicine; this process could take from two to four years.

9. Obliged to be humane, compassionate and spread love, and to realize everlasting peace and hapiness for all people.

4. Required to uphold righteousness, and to be both wise and courageous.

Funkier- probably built around the same time as Henna Temple, but originally a mainstream Buddhist temple until the early 1600's. This temple was integrated into the Shoaling order around 650 B.C. Larger than the Henna Temple, Funkier served as the Headquarters during times when Henna was either destroyed or under threat.

Wanting- Southern school, taught many great warriors, snake temple. Temple was built n the late 1700's as a Shoaling temple, built in a mountain area overlooking the ocean near Shanghai.

6. Forbidden to rape, molest, do evil, steal, rob, abduct or cheat.

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