Pre-1928 photos?

[Judge Pen]

http://x.russbo.com/photopost/showga...at/3004/page/1

Anybody know anything about him and these photos?

[GeneChing]

But if you're interested in the 1928 Shaolin photos, your source shouldn't be Doc. It should be Uwe Schenk. He's posted a nice gallery of these photos online.

[Judge Pen]

But if you're interested in the 1928 Shaolin photos, your source shouldn't be Doc. It should be Uwe Schenk. He's posted a nice gallery of these photos online.

Those are the same ones. Know anything about him and these photos?

[Shaolinlueb]

those are some pretty cool photo's
http://72arts.com/v-web/gallery/Shao..._vor_1928_0026
but this one looks like "i'm gonna sneak up on you and kill you!"

[MasterKiller]

He has some pretty neat manuscripts he put together in PDF format abotu Shaolin history and kung fu training. I think you can download them from doc's site.

[GeneChing]

According to Mr. Schwenk (and I've only corresponded with him via email so I don't really know him) he received the photos, some 300 total, in 1971. I've asked him if he would reveal the source, and he said he would talk to him about it, but never got back to me on it. I'm still dying to know, just for my own curiousity. He promised to preserve those photos, which is what he is doing. He had given them to aboutshaolin.com to publish on the net, but they modified them which Mr. Schwenk felt was inappropriate, so he tried to retract them. I'm not sure what's happened with their presence on that site, nor do I know the details about what kind of agreement Doc might have struck with Mr. Schwenk about using them. We had discussed reprinting them in our magazine, but now that Mr. Schwenk has done such a marvelous job on his own site, it seems a little redundant.

As I reported in our Shaolin Special 2005 on page 26 of my article, Shaolin Temple Reincarnated: New Highway, New Entrance, New Halls, New Loti, a collection of photos alledgedly from a Japanese photo study done in 1922 resurfaced recently. It is supposed to be the basis of the recent reconstruction of Shaolin Temple (as discussed in that article). Anyone who had been to Shaolin Temple prior to 2005 knows that the bulk of the side halls had been reconstructed from the period of the mid-eighties until the mid-nineties. These were demolished and new buildings have already been erected, based upon these photos.

Mr. Schwenk's collection certainly fits the description of these Japanese photos and it is a truly magnificent find. I thought we discussed them before here somewhere, but don't have the energy to go digging for that original post at this moment.

[YuanZhideDiZhen]

The Zhong Lao Bell Tower supposedly held the magic ghost hunting bells of the demon slayer Zhong Jia. elsewhere at that temple the magic shackles also existed, supposedly, along with some of his relics.

but all this is folk lore from the area and dubious at best.

[Golden Tiger]

That one is kind of interesting.........

As is the translation

[snakebyte8]

Nothing to add, besides, AWESOME!

[richard sloan]

Uwe trained with Shi Wan Heng.

[David Jamieson]

That one is kind of interesting.........

As is the translation

care to lay the translation on us non chinese readers/speakers?

i'll give you a piece of gum! (the chewing kind, not gold)

[MasterKiller]

care to lay the translation on us non chinese readers/speakers?

"Sin The' was here."

[GeneChing]

It says that it's the main stone column in Chu Zu An, which is the nunnery, half way up the trail to Bodhidharma's cave. That's an ancient column, quite venerated because of it's age, but few tourists have actually seen it because it's off the beaten path. The nunnery isn't as open to the public as the main temple.

I like that gum that cleans you teeth.

[Judge Pen]

So that column still exists? Have you seen it Gene?

[Golden Tiger]

care to lay the translation on us non chinese readers/speakers?

i'll give you a piece of gum! (the chewing kind, not gold)

I give up on this chinese language translation stuff....its more confusing than ...chinese arithmatic....

I asked a friend to translate the caption....I got "first/original.....grandparent/elder......nunnery/hall.....stone.....pillar"

Then I ask another one to translate it....I got " Chu Zu An (first 3 char. together)....hall (next 2)...stone pillar (last 2).

I go back and ask the first....their are like "oh, I thought you wanted a litteral translation of the characters.....doh!!!!!

Anyway, I did ask if the figure on the pillar resembles any ghost/demon/whatever and both said no. You have to admit it looks a lot like...a hairy guy.....

Any help on that Gene? You seemed to hope over that part above....