This is not a Print!
This Chinese calligraphy painting scroll is created by the disabled artist.
Approximate Measurements:
Length of Silk Scroll: 64.4" (163cm)
Width of Wooden Scroll Roller: 18.6" (47cm)
Traditional Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese Characters & pinyin
This is the tenet of Shaolin Chuan: spirit, power, qi, bone, expression
About Shaolin Kungfu for answers to Frequently Asked Questions
What is Shaolin Kungfu?
Shaolin Kungfu is the style of kungfu (or martial art) originally developed in the Shaolin Monastery in China. It has a history of about 1500 years and has since derived into various schools such as Lohan, Praying Mantis, Chaquan, Hoong Ka, Wing Choon, Choy-Li-Fatt and many others.
What benefits can one get from practising Shaolin Kungfu?
There are many benefits, and they may be generalized into five categories: self-defence, health, vitality, mind expansion and spiritual development.
In what ways can practising Shaolin Kungfu lead to mind expansion and spiritual development?
Mind expansion and spiritual cultivation were actually the original aim of Bodhidharma when he first taught the Eighteen Lohan Hands and the Sinew Metamorphosis at the Shaolin Monastery. Later these two sets of exercises developed into Shaolin Kungfu and Shaolin Chi Kung. Practising Shaolin Kungfu can lead to mind expansion and spiritual development because the training of mind and spirit is an integral part of its practice. This is attained through meditation or Zen. When you practise genuine Shaolin Kungfu, you also practise chi kung and Zen. In Chinese culture, "mind" and "spirit" are similar, although there may be differences in emphasis and connotation.
Is Bodhidharma the founder of Shaolin Kungfu and Shaolin Chi Kung?
No, but Shaolin disciples gratefully honoured him as the First Patriarch because it was through his initiative in teaching the Eighteen Lohan Hands and the Sinew Metamorphosis that Shaolin Kungfu and Shaolin Chi Kung developed. Before him there was no kungfu or chi kung training at the Shaolin Monastery. But kungfu and chi kung were already highly developed in China. Generals of the Zhou and Han Dynasties, and Taoist masters before the arrival of Bodhidharma in China in 527 BCE were respectively great kungfu and chi kung masters. There was no founder for Shaolin Kungfu -- in the sense that Wang Lang was the founder of Shaolin Praying Mantis Kungfu, and Yim Wing Choon the founder of Wing Choon Kungfu; the very rich and extensive Shaolin kungfu and chi kung repertoire was the collective contribution of many, many masters through the ages. Bodhidharma the great is also the First Patriarch of Zen Buddhism.
Talented Disabled Calligraphy Artist creates this 'Quote of Shaolin Chuan' Chinese calligraphy art scroll!
When I first saw a person without hands who could not only write but also became a good calligrapher, I was shocked. (photo on the left）
Disabled artist, Mr. Wang, has sat in a wheelchair more than 30 years after a catastrophic accident during fieldwork left him paralyzed from the waist down. Master Wang was gracefully moving and pausing his brush that can be mesmerizing, and there is one of his artworks on display here. (Photos on the right)
