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There are two ways of spelling out Chinese words - Wade Giles and Pinyin. Wade Giles was developed in the late 1800s - early 1900s, and pinyin was developed in the 1950s.
If you know the method to...

Or try to find a teacher that has some background in either TCM or western medicine, so that he'll be able to know what to look out for. I can think of at least 2 or 3 xingyi teachers in NYC that...

I haven't heard of any such fight - do you have the details? How would that show that sanda was superior to xingyi? I would take it to mean that an individual sanda fighter beat an individual...

I'm looking at what he's doing with his hands before he throws his students, and in a lot of the throws Master Lin seems to be repositioning his hands so that thier hands are grabbing him in a way...

1. Yes Xingyi is a great place to start. In my own experience studying internal arts, it was hard for me to use power in taiji and softer styles. Xingyi was easier for me to get a feel for internal...

I'm researching a paper on the history of kung fu in the US for a paper, and I've run into a brick wall in looking at two martial arts federations that were formed in the 1970s in NYC - the Eastern...

Those are not contemporary historical accounts. A contemporary account would be from the time in which Jesus was alive - that page suggests that such records probably existed, but we only have...

There are no contemporary historical accounts of Jesus. I don't say that to call any of the details of your faith into question. But if anyone living in the time of Christ did write about him,...

Thanks for the help.

Can anyone point me to a list of the last couple of abbots of the Henan Shaolin monestary? I'm trying to find one on the internet, but not having too much luck.

Thanks.

I haven't come across a specialized vocabulary for tori and uki. I heard them described as you and your enemy (ni/ni de diren).

Tai Sabaki seems to be the equivelant of bufa or stance work. bufa...

What are the kanji?

I don't really understand why anyone would get into qi vampirism.

Sure its possible, you can draw in energy from just about anything - mountains, the earth, sky, trees, the ocean, etc.

But...

I would recommend reading Ingo Swann's writings on Remote Viewing. He's someone that is remarkably level headed and analytical about something that attracts a lot of writing that is neither. See...

Thanks for your insight - that's definitely the same way that I think about these things.

I was wondering, there is a lot in Daoist literature about what we would call Out of Body Experiences or Astral Projection. In Chinese I believe it goes by linghun chuqiao or I]yuanshen...

I don't really understand what you're trying to say.

As I understand it there are basically two things that you can do with your energy - at any given moment you're either cultivating it or...

It would mean a few phone calls and time on google, but it might be worth your time to:

Call your state attorney generals office and see if they had recieved any complaints against TSK.

Find...

So, when my master was visiting from Beijing we happened to walk by a Tiger Schulman dojo. Stopping to look at a kickboxing class through the window I was expecting to hear him make fun of it. ...

Is that the one by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche? He's sn interesting teacher... I saw him speak once and he mentioned that there are various rituals for prosperity in his tradition (which is the Bon-po...

Screaming "I'm dreaming" sounds like a more intense version of an exercise that I read in a book by some psychologist who was supposedly the leading researcher on Lucid Dreaming - its been years, so...

There are two Gao styles that I know of. One is Gao Yisheng, which goes through Cheng Tinghua. The other was developed by Gao Ziying, who studied under Gu Guomin. Gu Guomin's main master was Liang...

The best article that I've found on the confusion surrounding the meaning of Daoist is:

On the Word "Taoist" as a Source of Perplexity. by Nathan Sivin
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/perp.html

Yes - and this is no disrespect to Graceffo - but I don't put too much faith in one person's account of their fighting ability versus someone elses.

I've met people who trained at Shaolin who had...

How approachable is your teacher?

I know that some teachers are not at all interested in discussing the relative pro's and con's of different teaching styles beyond "My way is the best" but if he...