Kwon Bup The Fighting Art of Shaolin Temple (English Edition)

Kwon Bup The Fighting Art of Shaolin Temple explains the creation, history and evolution of the first Asian fighting art practiced at the Shaolin Temple and brought to China from India using the Silk Road as the Buddhist philosophy's emphasis on physical and mental health and as China's first preventive medicine practice that included training in Shaolin Temple Chuan Fa/Kwon Bup for physical and mental health reasons, medical surgeries and pharmaceutical treatments that were unknown in China at the time and so Buddhism and Kwon Bup swept through the Asian countries providing relief to the old, weak, injured and ill. The author describes the relationship between Shaolin Temple Chuan Fa and Kwon Bup fighting methods and why Kwon Bup became Korea's first fighting method and Kwon Bup's relationship to Korea's other early fighting styles that include Subahk and Tae Kyon. The author also includes a discussion on Kwon Bup's influence on the 20th century Korean martial arts styles of Tang Soo Do, Kong Soo Do, Tae Kwon Do, Soo Bahk and the Korean Kwans that resurrected Korean martial arts such as the Moo Duk Kwan whose founder Grandmaster Hwang Kee redesigned the Moo Duk Kwan styles of martial arts to include Korea's ancient fighting arts of Shaolin Temple Kwon Bup, Korean Subahk and Tae Kyon. Included is a substantial bibliography of over 80 references, a full glossary and extensive index for the readers convenience. Recommended for the beginning, intermediate martial arts reader as well as the experienced reader of martial arts information.