CHINA TRIP
Shaolin Temple
August 2006

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Streets of Dengfeng, Henan Province...

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Our trek to the Shaolin Temple begins at Shaolin Village...

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Inside the Shaolin Temple...

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On the outer edges of one courtyard in the Shaolin Temple, there are many mud and straw statues that tell a story about Shaolin's history...

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One of many beautiful stone reliefs inside the Shaolin Temple...

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The students meet Master Shi Xing Wei's Sifu, Shi De Yang...

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Tamo is often depicted holding a shoe. The legend says he was buried with his shoes so that he could return to his homeland in India...

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We were quite surprised to be greeted by all the students clapping for our arrival as we walked into the school...

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The city is alive with pedestrians on bicycles, carts, and foot...

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Such beautiful trash and recycling receptacles ...

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In front of the famous Shaolin Temple entrance...

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If you look carefully you can see the depressions in the floor caused by hundreds of years of training by the warrior monks who inhabitited the Shaolin Temple...

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Cauldron inside the Shaolin Temple...

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Shaolin Quanfa, school of Shaolin Kungfu, in Dengfeng...

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The students of Shaolin Quanfa in their daily routine of kungfu practice...

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