Imperial sanctions ensured the growth of Shaolin's reputation as a martial arts center. It still houses 70 monks to this day. One of its greatest treasures are the 18 art frescoes, painted in 1828 ...

A real-life 'kung fu kid' has become an online sensation after going viral on TikTok for training to become a Shaolin monk in Henan, China. 25-year-old Sacha Wenk enrolled as a full-time student ...

Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They defeat the South Shaolin teachers and ...

Hu nods with a teacher's satisfaction ... ruins of a small temple on a nearby mountain peak. The oldest monks, disheartened by Shaolin's expanding commercial ventures, encouraged Dejian to ...

The influential film made a star of Gordon Liu Chia-hui, who played the fighting Shaolin monk San Te, and set the style for many of the martial arts films which followed. But Lau’s two sequels ...