Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 3 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed 50k times. Improve this question. Michel Michel 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. You may want to try googling some of them and contacting them by email for some 1st hand accounts. Someone I know recently became a master with no previous experience — LemmyX.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I believe your monk will also award you the title of master. I'm not sure. Here's his answer: The discipleship oath consists of 5 core vows of which being Buddhist is not one of them. In a nutshell and not in any particular order, the vows are: Being a good person and compassionate and helpful to those in need.
Defending Shaolin Temple. Not killing. Refraining from vices, i. Loyalty, Honoring Shaolin Temple and your master. And I go over my experience with training at Shaolin a little more at my answer here: Training martial arts in china Hope that helps! Improve this answer. Steve Weigand Steve Weigand Very informative! For being a disciple,is it necessary to accept Buddhism? Michel I've updated my answer to include a quote from a disciple detailing the oath that disciples need to take.
The short answer is no, you don't have to accept Buddhism at all. This is a secular discipleship. Sardathrion Haha!
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Bushiseshin Bushiseshin True, but this is not really addressing the question. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Related 7. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Accept all cookies Customize settings. After Baduo, came Bodhidharma, who is considered today to be the founder of modern Chinese Buddhism, a monk who may have been Central Asian or Indian and again his disciple, Huike was a famous martial artist.
It is thought that all three of the martial artist disciples had a military background before arriving at the Shaolin Temple. It was used in battle during actions to defend the monastery against bandits in A.
It is not until the 16 th century that another record of the Shaolin fighting in combat but over the course of 2 centuries there are nearly 40 records of battles involving the monks. It was during this time that the Shaolin Staff fighting method was added to the Kung Fu portfolio as well as fighting with a spear. Much of the fighting from to involved pirates and while they suffered the occasional defeat, the pirates were driven from the region and at the battle of Wengjiagang warrior monks fought a group of pirates and while nearly pirates perished, only 4 monks fell during the combat.
Many Shaolin monks consider Chan rather than Quan to be the true definition of what it is to be Shaolin. The Shaolin Temple, in common with most other Chinese martial arts training centers, teaches its combat methods using forms. There will usually be a mixture of small and big forms that make up that style. However, some styles only have a single type of form. The Shaolin temple teaches hundreds of styles. The core of their teachings, however, are a little simpler. They whittled down to styles during the Qing Dynasty which every student should master and there are 18 famous styles from this.
If you want to be a Kung Fu Master at Shaolin, you would need to learn a complete system and many different styles and weapons. Most people choose to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin because they want to get the most authentic form of training. Because Kung Fu was formalized at the temple, the big draw to potential students is the chance to drink knowledge from the source. The core of training Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple is discipline. There are no creature comforts and initiates can expect a bed which is made from a plank of wood plus some sheets which must be folded neatly at the beginning of each day.
The training day starts at 5 a. Recruits are either beaten with a stick or made to stand for hours at a time on their heads on concrete. Former student, Matthew Ahmet , says this is a very painful process. Chinese students start at the Shaolin temple at the age of 5 and the monastery will become the center of their lives. This is because balance and posture are the core concepts around which all other training is based.
If someone cannot hold themselves properly without a weapon or attacker to deal with, why would you train them to fight? After these skills are mastered, more focus will be placed on meditating and learning the 72 arts with a gradual transition into learning actual combat. This training takes place for 14 to 18 hours a day and it is hard. The monks may be Buddhists, but they push their pupils as hard as any military drill instructor. When someone reaches the standard of warrior monk, they are good enough to fight for the Shaolin and to take part in displays of their athleticism representing the temple, and they are also good enough to found their own dojo and teach within it.
What they are not good enough to do, however, is to lead or teach at the highest standards within the Shaolin temple. Mastery, as it is perceived in the Shaolin tradition, comes with a lifetime of work.
Yes, there are two ways for a foreigner to become a Shaolin Kung Fu Master. The most authentic of which is to present yourself at the Shaolin Temple or one of its branches within China and ask to become a trainee. If you are accepted, you will not be required to pay for tuition or board , but you will be expected to submit completely to the training regime and not to complain. This can be very hard, psychologically, at first because there are no shortcuts in Shaolin training, you progress only when you show that you have mastered what is expected of you.
How to get to Shaolin Temple From Dengfeng. You can take a taxi to the temple and it costsaround CNY From Zhengzhou. From Luoyang. From Xi'an. Believed to have been founded in the 5th centuryCE, the Shaolin Temple is the main temple of the Shaolin school of Buddhism to this day.
Asked by: Arritokieta Schneidmuller religion and spirituality buddhism Can anyone join the Shaolin Temple? Last Updated: 2nd October, Short answer: Yes, they teach foreigners. No, itwouldn't be possible for an outsider to become a monk there.
You can , however become a disciple under a monk. At the Shaolin Temple at Songshan in Dengfeng, Henan, monksroutinely take on foreigners for training.
Sene Ende Professional. How long does it take to learn Shaolin Kung Fu? Generally, to truly know and be good enough at any styleor system, you are looking at some 2 years at best, and it's anuphill until you are gone. You can always improve, and then some. However, as I said, some people never learn. The time it takes to learn depends on many, many things.
Yusara Burckli Professional. Do Shaolin monks eat meat? Shaolin Warrior Monks. Levente Tondo Professional. What language do Shaolin monks speak? What is the name of the Chinese dialect that the Shaolin Monks at Henan speak? They speak Central Plains Mandarin???? Henan dialect. Zorka Langlais Explainer. Are Shaolin monks celibate? A Shaolin monk is simply a monk. Theyfollow the life of a Buddhist monk. That is the key thinghere. They give their life over to their religion, following strictrules, including celibacy , abstaining from meat andalcohol.
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