Shaolin martial arts students follow their trainer, Sima Azimi, 20, in black, during a practice session on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2017. The ten ethnic Hazara women and ...

Shi Yongxin (R), the Shaolin Temple abbot, presented a Buddha Dharma statue to a member of the United Studio of Self Defense (USSD), in Dengfeng county, Zhengzhou city, Henan province, July 3.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — While Afghanistan’s Buddhists were carving the giant sandstone statues in Bamiyan in 500 A.D., Buddhists in China were creating martial arts in the Shaolin temple in Henan ...

Wan Yi is upside down. The mid-July sun burns. He begins to shake, breathing heavily. Sweat drops from his face to the ground. The azure soccer jersey soaks into a deeper blue. His face turns beetroot ...

As we continue our coverage on “Monks of the City,” we visit a Shaolin monk in Manhattan who has made a name for himself teaching Buddhism through the martial arts. NY1’s Roger Clark paid a visit to ...

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the 1978 film directed by venerated martial arts choreographer Lau Kar-leung for Shaw Brothers, is one of the tentpoles of Hong Kong cinema. The influential film made a ...

A contestant performs in the Iron Palm Kung Fu category during a martial arts competition held in Shaolin Temple, Central China's Henan province, July 30, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] Shaolin Temple, the ...