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Overview of Lamka Shaolin Disciple’s Union

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Lamka Shaolin Disciples’ Union has been developed and established to provide information to the public regarding the traditions of the Shaolin order, including Shaolin martial arts (Kungfu) and philosophy especially in India. It is dedicated to those Shaolin priests that risked their lives to flee a country wracked by civil war so that Shaolin knowledge might survive even if the temples themselves did not. Our school is a testament to their legacy. The information contained herein is from the word of my Sifu in the early 1980's. We are in the process of describing and imparting most of the styles at our school. That process has been slower than we would like, but it is a large project undergoing endlessly. We have had feedback stating that "Shaolin already has a grandmaster", and that if this information did not come from Shaolin Temple it must not be accurate or genuine. To this we reply that the title "grandmaster" simply denotes one who has taught other masters, not the unique head of a system. There is a big difference between stating an individual is "a” grandmaster vs. "the” grandmaster. We feel it is presumptuous for anyone to assume they are the “only" grandmaster of the Shaolin system considering the number of Shaolin priests that fled the temples to live elsewhere - both within China and without.There are also many who will contend that the information does not truly describe Shaolin since this does not exactly reflect the same information coming out of Henan (the place of the original Shaolin temple in China). To them we reply that the Shaolin temple system in China was destroyed near the beginning of the last century, its traditions and knowledge forcefully repressed for many years, and that its "rebirth" should be taken in the context of the environment into which and from which it has re-emerged. Are there many who really know what a comparison between the re-emerged Shaolin and the old Shaolin would reveal? How much of the true teachings were left there to be re-assembled? Food for thought.... At Lamka Shaolin Disciples’ Union you will find information about most aspects of the Shaolin tradition as it existed near the turn of the last century as our main intention was to keep alive the art of Shaolin Kungfu to our best extent, including what kind of Kungfu was taught, the history and structure of the temples, and philosophies that bound it all together.

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