6/29/2023 0 Comments Mondo macabro book![]() One of the paradoxes of the Shaolin training is that it is an apparently aggressive art devised as a means of controlling aggression. Out of these exercises came many of the techniques that were developed into kung fu. To sharpen their minds and tone their bodies the monks practiced chi exercises to control and harness their physical energies. This was a form of meditation brought to China by an Indian monk, Tamo. ![]() Built more than 1,500 years ago on the slopes of the Songshan mountain range in the remote plains of central China, the monastery was a centre of Ch’an or Zen Buddhism. Their roots lie in techniques developed by the monks of the ancient Shaolin Temple. Of course, martial arts in movies had been around a long time before Bruce Lee arrived on the scene. ‘Not so, it’s a form of Chinese combat which Bruce Lee purveys without stint in the Hong Kong action pictures which are the newest fashion in filmgoing.’Įven before people knew exactly what he did, he was a star. ![]() ‘The uninitiated might be forgiven for thinking that kung fu was some kind of oriental King Kong,’ wrote the British magazine Continental Film Review in August 1973. ![]() Japanese poster for Wang Yu’s Master of the Flying Guillotine. ![]()
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