Klasztor Shaolin
Historia, religia i chińskie sztuki walki
Translation: Justyn Hunia
Series: Ex Oriente
Pages: 312
Book format: B5
Publication date: 2011
Publication date: 28.09.2011
Book description
The Shaolin Monastery
History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
The Shaolin Monastery charts, for the first time in any language, the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study, Meir Shahar considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the twenty-first century have spread throughout the world. He reveals the intimate connection between monastic violence and the veneration of the violent divinities of Buddhism and analyzes the Shaolin association of martial discipline and the search for spiritual enlightenment
History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
The Shaolin Monastery charts, for the first time in any language, the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study, Meir Shahar considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the twenty-first century have spread throughout the world. He reveals the intimate connection between monastic violence and the veneration of the violent divinities of Buddhism and analyzes the Shaolin association of martial discipline and the search for spiritual enlightenment
Authors
Meir Shahar
Translation
Justyn Hunia
ISBN: 978-83-233-2971-8
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