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There was meant to be someone, but I heard he was put in jail for a week when Yongxin got elected back in the '90s. Also I believe Yongxin changed the rules so that there are no abbot elections every...

Sorry Gene, Yanwu not Yongwu ... typo!

Breeze, Yanwu now runs probably the co-leading (with Shaolin Temple UK) SEA school in the UK with I think 200+ students as well as regular TV appearances and...

Hello Gene, I am in Europe and here I think there is one major difference from the USA perhaps: some of the more key influential Shaolin monks / disciples / masters are in fact westerners.

Some of...

In Spain at the moment there are big arguments between the aforementioned schools about who is "legit" ..... which itself makes no sense at all .....

LFJ is right, Bruno Tombolato is not a...

Gene as far as I could tell it has been a kind of "crescendo" ... in the late '90s early '00 he was claiming to be the only "western Shaolin monk", then when other more legit westerners started to...

Met him a few years ago ..... the guy was somewhat of a nutcase, obviously unimaginable that he is apparently a serial killer ..... but certainly easy to spot as quite a "weirdo"!

Facts well known...

Ultimately the "moral of the story" is that you cannot define a - Shaolin - "monk" just by its name or robe, Chinese or Western.

Shaolin itself always had - and always will IMO - a great mix of...

Totally agree! :)

Hi LFJ, thanks for your very informative clarification although to me in a way it further confirms the "grayness" today ..... the "Wudizi" name you jokingly use says it all ..... I think the wuseng...

Hi LFJ, I think things are a little more "gray" than that, for exemple all the people above are secular disciples but also had formal "wuseng" ceremonies inside Shaolin temple with the right number...

Hi, I'm new here but I've been interested in Shaolin for a long while!

I live in Europe and there are several legit non chinese Shaolin disciples / monks here:

Shi Xing Mi (Walter Gjergja)...