It is said that “the world's martial arts out of Shaolin”, this is not only the world's martial arts holy land, but also the ancestor of Buddhism Zen. In the Shaolin Temple to pose a few classic martial arts to leave a picture, the Jianghu sword seems to be in front of the eyes flashed.
Shaolin Temple is the holy place of Buddhism in China, and also the ancestor of Chinese Buddhism “Zen”. In 527 AD, the famous Indian monk Bodhidharma (Dharma Master) sailed to southern China by water, then crossed the Yangtze River northward into the Central Plains and came to Shaolin, where he sat in the back of the Shaolin Temple to preach the Dharma, and advocated the Zen teachings of “mind to mind”, which established the Shaolin Temple as the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism.
Shaolin Temple is the birthplace of Shaolin Kung Fu, and Shaolin School is a wide range of martial arts, a long history, many types of martial arts schools, since ancient times is the people of the country in the mind of the “world's first major school of martial arts”, the world's martial arts Taishan Beidou.
The Pagoda Forest is the burial place of Shaolin Temple's successive abbots, which is so quiet and solemn that you may find the shadow of the movie “Shaolin Temple” here.
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Address: G207 Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China
Tel: 0371-62745000,0371-62749300
Opening time: 08:00-16:30
Entrance Fees: CNY120