Focusing on the moment after you wake up and the way you breathe can make an enormous impact on your life, says Master Shi Heng Yi, because “so many things are made to pour the attention and energy ...

At the heart of this dialogue stood Abbot Shi Yongxin, the guiding force behind Shaolin’s modern evolution. Alongside him, Shaolin masters like Master Yan Li and the temple’s renowned medical ...

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 ...

Mariella lives in Berlin with her family of seven. Her father was trained in kung fu martial arts at the Chinese Shaolin monastery. Today he runs the Berlin-Schöneberg kung fu school and prepares her ...

These scenes have shocked many because they depict machines performing exercises that have been passed down through centuries of human discipline and spiritual practice.