's face is turning red, sweat is dripping from his jet black hair and he's trying to keep his legs from trembling. Kwan, 11, is among a class of students at Shaolin Kung Fu Academy. The school is ...

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 ...

WAN Shan Qing had finally arrived. In defiance of his parents and carrying only a blanket, the 13-year-old had traveled more than 900 miles from his home province on the east coast of China to the ...

Mei-Juin Chen and Martha Burr's "Shaolin Ulysses" is a brisk portrait of five "kungfu monks" attempting, by various methods, to transfer the teachings of China's famed Shaolin Temple to American soil.

About a millennium and a half ago, Buddhist teachings from India began seeping over the Himalayas and into China. Yuan Hong, an emperor of the Wei dynasty, had a Buddhist monastic institution set up ...

Like many kids growing up the early ’90s, Master Shi Yanqing watched Jet Li movies and dreamed of being a hero. Unlike most of those kids, Yanqing lived only 170 miles from the 1,519-year-old Shaolin ...