HOME NEWS ABOUT US LOCATIONS EVENTS MEDIA EDUCATION ONLINE SHOP CONTACT US EDUCATION TRAINING CENTRE   CHAN BUDDHIST CULTURE CHAN BUDDHISM HISTORY HEART SUTRA CH'AN SHAOLIN TEMPLE CHINA   SHAOLIN GONG FU SAN SHOU QI GONG TAI CHI   DONATION TO WILDLIFE All our educational information is FREE. I Hope this information helps. If the information that you looking for is not featured here, you are welcome to contact us and we will try our best to help you. If you have some extra money, feel free to help the planet's wildlife. Recent reports suggest that two out of every five species on the planet that have been assessed by scientists face extinction. Animal charities aim to halt this alarming trend by stopping practices such as illegal hunting and making safe area's for animals to live and reproduce. Click here for more information. Thank you! CHAN BUDDHIST CULTURE Buddhism was born in Nepal about 2500 years ago. It spread to India some 400 years later, and 1500 years ago ... CLick here for more >>> CHAN BUDDHISM HISTORY In 527 AD, 32 years after Ba Tuo's founding of the Shaolin temple, Bodhidharma crossed through Guangdong province into China ... Click here for more >>> HEART SUTRA When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practised the deep Prajnaparamita, he saw that the five skandhas were empty ... Click here for more >>> CH'AN By the seventh century CE, significant numbers of Ch'an monks were gathering in organized monasteries to practice and study ... Click here for more >>> SHAOLIN TEMPLE CHINA According to legend, Chinese Kung Fu martial arts originated from Shaolin Monastery (first established in AD 495) at the foot of Mt ... Click here for more >>> SHAOLIN GONG FU In the year 497AD the scholar monk Buddhabhadra (Ba Yuo in Chinese) left his native India and settled in the Songshan Mountains of Henan Province ... Click here for more >>> SAN SHOU/SAN DA San Shou is a new style of shaolin martial arts. It is a consolidation of Chinese martial art theories and techniques into a new form ... Click here for more >>> QI GONG/CHI KUNG What's the essence of Qi of Shaolin Qigong? It's a kind of force which within your body being released suddenly and unconsciously ... Click here for more >>> TAI JI/TAI CHI Tai Chi, as it is practiced in the west today, can perhaps best be thought of as a moving form of yoga and meditation combined ... Click here for more >>> UK SHAOLIN TEMPLE The UK Shaolin Temple has been established since 2002. This UK Shaolin Temple has a very good reputition and is well known through its involvement with the Shaolin 'Wheel of life' performance troupe ... Click here for more >>> Copyright © 2002-2009 UK Shaolin Temple Ltd. All rights reserved.