Fake Shaolin Groups

[shaolintemple]

Venerable Abbot of Shaolinsi Shi Yong Xin statement about Shaolin Wusheng Performances around the world.

1. Since January 2005, Shaolin Temple has not sent any official Shaolin Monk groups to United States. Any performance groups

are not from Shaolin Temple itself; they are from local schools which using the Shaolin Temple's name.

2. The name of the Shaolin Temple's Abbot is Shi Yong Xin. There is no Shaolin monk named Shi Yong Yao. (This fake man is

trying to impersonate the Abbot of the shaolin Temple)

3. Only Shaolin Wheel of Life and Shaolin Warriors tours are from Shaolin Temple and both performance troupes are still in

China. And there is no plan to come for any "charity" performance in the United States during this spring.

4. Fake Shaolin groups and monks have already harmed Venerable Abbot??s Name and Path and most important the Shaolin Temple

reputation.

5. They are using Shaolin Temple??s name to deceive people in the name of charity.


Shaolin Temple??s Attorney Mister Huang Kun states that there are some ways to tell if a show is from the Shaolin Temple.

1. The official Chinese website of the Shaolin Temple http://www.shaolin.org.cn/ where all the important official activities

are announced and listed.

2. Almost all major performances of the Shaolin Wu Sheng are led by Venerable Abbot Shi Yong Xin personally.

3. Contact the temple directly.
CHINA HENAN SONGSHAN SHAOLIN TEMPLE
DENGFENG CITY, POST 452491
HENAN PROVINCE
FAX: 03717300001

Any usage of Shaolin Temple's name without Abbot Shi Yong Xin's permission cannot represent Shaolin Temple.

[GeneChing]

You've posted a lot of odd factoid posts today. It would be much better if you could research our archives and post your comments on the appropriate threads. Many of these topics have already been discussed and are somewhat old news. Here's a thread would have been good to add this post to...

[shaolintemple]

I am sorry, I certainly notice next time

[Vasquez]

Note that they could still be good at kung fu, very good in fact. They may have rebelled against shaolin teachings but they still have the kung fu to show for.

[Dale Dugas]

Good Kung Fu?

Like of all the f***ing trolls on the planet you would know MA from your own behind.

Please............


ROFLMAO.

Dale

[Vasquez]

Honestly you can't tell a shaolin monk when you see one.... ohhhh pls.

[GeneChing]

This is a great story - like something out of a classic wuxia tale yet in modern day PRC.

Fake monks besiege Chinese police station

Police from Baotou city say incident began when what appeared to be group of monks attacked toll booth before escaping by bus

Police in northern China faced an unexpected and unholy menace last week when more than 100 fake monks besieged their police station, a Chinese newspaper reported today.

Police from Baotou city, in inner Mongolia, told the North News that the incident began last Wednesday when what appeared to be a group of monks attacked a toll booth and escaped by bus.

Officers stopped the vehicle at a roadblock after a lengthy car chase and arrested 31 of the men – but the suspects fought back with steel bars and knives, allowing the rest to make their getaway on a double-decker bus.

The following day, more than 100 men, apparently monks, besieged the city's Guyang police station to demand the release of those arrested.

The central public security bureau had to dispatch 500 officers, including 200 members of the armed police, to protect the building.

They arrested 178 fake monks, confiscating the sticks, knives, fake medicines and fake gold necklaces they were carrying.

Police said the group was an organised gang made up mostly of farmers from Hunan, who paid the leaders 20 yuan (£2) a day for the privilege of membership.

The men pretended to be monks so they could make money performing martial arts, claim to be able to cure people of illnesses and sell medications. Some also extorted money.

The public security bureaus in Guyang county and Baotou declined to comment on the case when contacted by the Guardian.

Earlier this year, media in eastern Shandong province reported that police had caught eight fake monks from a gang of 58 who were peddling a herbal paste they claimed could cure all known diseases.

In other cases, impostors have claimed to be from the famous Shaolin temple, only to be exposed by the poor quality of their martial arts performances.

Genuine monks have repeatedly complained about people masquerading as lamas, often in or near the grounds of temples.

[richard sloan]

...Genuine monks have repeatedly complained about people masquerading as lamas, often in or near the grounds of temples...

Now THAT can be read a few ways lol! what rich imagery.

[David Jamieson]

I'm pretty sure I could spot a pantomime Lamma lurking around a temple.

The fur would look fake and it would be walking funny.

[richard sloan]

that conjures images of when those imbeciles steve-o and friends dressed as a fake zebra and walked by some lions on the serengeti.

[tiaji1983]

Hey! I know a fake Shaolin guy here in Tx. This guy went to train in Shaolin for 1 week, and trained with a teacher who altered the forms he learned and is now calling it Shaolin Wushu. He calls himself Sigung, and he made 8 Shaolin forms calls Shaolin Bagua.... He also made his own Taichi completely ignoring principles and called it Yang Chen Fu, even though he doesnt abide by the Yang's signature softness... Sorry to rant, just the thread hit close to home cuz I studied "Taichi" with this guy for a full year and it wasted my time and money... Only if there was some way to warn people about these schools...

[Eugene]

You can eazaly tell when a monk is fake,

If they walk on stage with the robes, and bald head, you cant see it yet, but as soon they show a routine of something, there footwork says it all.

I have seen Shaolin Monks perform on stage with footwork, that is to be ashamed.

I think there are worldwide maybe 30 good Shaolin Monks.


Peace Eugene

[GeneChing]

Saw this earlier but didn't catch the Shaolin connection until now.

Billionaire who stiffed homeless now accused of faking Ice Bucket Challenge
By Natalie O'Neill
August 27, 2014 | 10:12am



The Chinese billionaire who irked scores of homeless New Yorkers by failing to deliver a promise to give them cash is facing accusations that he faked an ice bucket challenge.

Chen Guangbiao — the self-styled “biggest philanthropist” in China — claimed he spent 30 minutes in a plastic bin of freezing water before donating more than $165,000 to fund medical research, according to Central European News.

“As China’s chief philanthropist and number one low-carbon environmentalist it is my honor to help people afflicted with motor neuron disease,” Guangbiao proclaimed on the social media site, Weibo.

“If anyone can sit in this ice water longer than my 30 minutes, I will donate another one million Yuan,” he posted along with a video.
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Chen Guangbiao angered homeless New Yorkers in June at an event at Central Park’s Boathouse restaurant.Photo: James Messerschmidt

But eagle-eyed observers claim the eccentric recycling magnate staged the frigid challenge — by using big chunks of fake acrylic ice cubes in the video, which was filmed in Nanjing.

They pointed out the “ice” sank in the water instead of floating.

“Human beings can only stay in ice water for a few minutes. At the beginning, they must have poured warm water and fake ice onto Chen,” slammed on online critic, Xian Yang.

Guangbiao, who’s notorious for flashy media stunts, fired back, saying his martial arts skills helped him stay tough in the cold water.

“I used to practice Kung Fu at the famous Shaolin Temple, so my health is much better than most other people,” he explained.

“The bin isn’t very big and as Chen is quite chubby his body takes up so much space there isn’t room for much water and ice anyway,” he said, speaking about himself in a weird third-person joke.

In June, Guangbiao treated four busloads of homeless people to lunch at The Loeb Boathouse in Central Park after posting an ad offering the meal and $300 cash.

But many guests were angry after he failed to fork over the cash.

[GeneChing]

I should note that this thread doesn't reflect on Shaolin itself. It's more about those that take advantage of Shaolin and in the process, sully the Shaolin name.

Controversial philanthropist admitted cheating
Wang ZhenghuaChina Daily/Asia News NetworkFriday, Mar 20, 2015



Controversial Chinese philanthropist Chen Guangbiao admitted he cheated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Sanxiang Metropolis Daily reported on Thursday.

In an interview taken earlier this month, the 47-year-old philanthropist, who made his millions in recycling, called his challenge a plotted performance art instead of a real one.
The authenticity of his challenge had drawn widespread doubts with Chen kept denying them, saying he knows martial arts and once was trained in the well-known Shaolin Temple.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was popular worldwide as a way to raise money for the treatment and research of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known in North America as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Participants pour buckets of ice water over themselves on camera. They can then either challenge someone to either take buckets of ice water or donate money to ALS research.
Last August, Chen uploaded two video clips to his micro blog that showed him taking the challenge.
In the video, Chen broke up a massive chunk of ice and then entered a garbage bin about 1 meter tall. His employees then poured more than 30 buckets of ice water with ice cubes onto him.
After pouring the ice water on Chen, his employees then put in the bucket some of the ice fragments that Chen had made from the ice block he had smashed.
According to commentary on the video, Chen stayed in the bucket for about 30 minutes.
In the latest interview, Chen said that ice fragments and block are authentic ice. But the garbage bin he stayed was filled with hot water with a temperature of about 50 C. Although a thermometer showed the temperature in the bin stood at freezing point, the bin was actually quite warm.
"Combined hot water with iced one, the temperature in the bin lingers at 25 C, about the same with the temperature of a hotel's swimming pool," Chen was quoted as saying.
He also said that it's no big deal for him to stay in such a bin for one hour or longer.
Among the people who keep challenging the authenticity of Chen's video is Wen Deyuan, director of Hunan Institute of Sexual Health.
With experiments on three mice, Wen made the public claim that dipping in freezing cold water for five minutes would lead to sterility.

[curenado]

That's right! So if there is someone "throwing a pin through a pane of glass" and they aren't of the abbot - that's an imposter!
(Ahahaha could not help that one)