Posts Tagged ‘Shaolin’

Shaolin show in Stockholm on Buddha Birthday

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Today we celebrated Buddha Birthday in Stockholm. Among the events there were shows of Shaolin Kung fu.
A monk from the Shaolin temple in Henan lives in Sweden since many years. His name is Shi Yongting and he teaches Shaolin in a kung fu club in Stockholm: Songshan Shaolingtemplets Chan Wu.

He and his students showed some Shaolin forms and some basic techniques. Here Shi Yongting himself shows a form:

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A place I really want to visit: the temple of Shaolin

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

A place I want very much to visit one day is the Shaolin temple in the province of Henan in China. Swedish newspapers report today that the toilets there have been remaked.

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