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    Shaolin Temple's official website

    http://www.shaolin.org.cn

    At this point, it's all in Chinese, but they are working on the English version that should be up soon.
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    Thanks Gene.
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    lol, the english site still isn't done....
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    weird index links...

    funny, i was searching for something else and came across this index for the site

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    odd, i was there a little over a month ago and the english page was working very nicely. perhaps some miscreants are chasing cracks in the earth... d'Thomasville Laramie DeSans Proctors shall apply fut.

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    I've yet to see the English version...

    The last time I spoke to Abbot Yongxin (see Shaolin Trips, Episode 4, Chapter 4) I asked about the English site. He gave me his best political smile and said they've been very busy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing
    The last time I spoke to Abbot Yongxin (see Shaolin Trips, Episode 4, Chapter 4) I asked about the English site. He gave me his best political smile and said they've been very busy...
    too bad i dont know chinese, i would call them up and give them a pitch to do the site.
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    Shaolin Temple's official website

    SHAOLIN wallpaper, high-resolution

    Shaolin frescos/photos and Chan sayings goes to
    http://www.shaolin.org.cn/subjectlist.asp?subjectid=45

    p.s. updated each week~~

    Last edited by hui; 10-19-2009 at 02:04 AM.

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    wow, super cool. thanks for the link !
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    Thanks for sharing - very nice
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    speaking of Shaolin's official website...

    I would love to see what that letter said.
    Hacker attacks Shaolin temple Website
    By Wang Xiang | 2009-11-12

    A HACKER has broken through Shaolin Temple's legendary kung fu defenses - by attacking its official Website and faking a letter from abbot Shi Yongxing apologizing for the commercialization of Buddhist heritage at the Henan Province temple.

    The post was defamatory, said senior monk Shi Yanyu, who added that the abbot was on a business trip and could not be reached for comment.

    The temple's Webmaster surnamed Li said it will take at least two or three days to repair the Website. It was the second online attack within a week, he said. The matter has been reported to police.

    Shaolin Temple is famous for its association with Chinese martial arts. Controversial abbot Shi has made bold business moves, taking over other temples and starting overseas branches in the United States and Hong Kong.

    Shi was called the CEO of Shaolin by Discovery Channel three years ago. He is also the first monk in China with an MBA degree.

    Shi denied that he over-commercializing the temple, although his actions have received plenty of online criticism.

    In the latest move, the legendary temple said it will spend 2 billion yuan (US$292.9 million) on rebuilding its northern branch in Tianjin Municipality.
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    only ever read few lines.. just like another controversy over the temple's commercialism.
    boring, ridiculous...

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    WSJ answering my request

    * November 13, 2009, 3:52 AM ET
    Shaolin Temple Under Hacker Attack

    Shaolin Temple - the world-famous birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu - was attacked by computer hackers twice this month, reflecting long-standing ill feeling about the temple’s aggressive commercial activities in recent years.

    Wednesday morning, the public Web site of Shaolin Temple showed a “Letter of Apology” that purported to be written by Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin, outlining a series of misdeeds to gain fame and wealth for himself over the past years. Just seven days earlier, hackers had posted on the site a black note – written in stylized Chinese calligraphy – reading “Shaolin evildoer Shi Yongxin, go to hell.”

    Management of the temple said the letter was fabricated by hackers and quicly closed the Web site. The temple said it has called in police to help with investigation.

    Meanwhile, snapshots of the letter and the note have been broadly circulated on Chinese Web forums.

    Some excerpts from the “apolpogy” letter posted on the Shaolin site (now closed).

    I feel shamed in front of Shaolin Temple and so many Shaolin monks and worshippers. Looking back on my experience sinking from an abbot to a sinner, all I feel is deep sorry and regret.

    Since I was named abbot of Shaolin Temple in 1999, i have hooked up with local government officials to push through demolitions and construction in areas near the temple.

    I gained fame for Shaolin Temple and myself at the price of the purity and holiness of the Buddhist temple.

    In order to satisfy my private desires, I traveled in a fancy SUV with a chauffeur and jetliner, spent 160,000 yuan for a tailor-made cassock from Nanjing. I also raised a mistress (split now). I stayed in luxurious hotels and lived a corrupt life.

    Today I borrowed the Web page of Shaolin Temple to publish this letter of apology. I don’t dare to ask for forgiveness of Buddha but just hope I won’t go even ****her on this path of commercialization.

    Some details in the letter appeared to draw on previous criticism of excessive commercialization of the Buddhist temple.

    For example, Shaolin Temple opened a Taobao shop last year to sell a variety of Shaolin-related products, including a Kung Fu instruction manual, “Shaolin Kungfu Secret Strategies,” which was offered for sale at 9,999 yuan (around $146). Critics say that publishing the temple’s internal Kungfu teachings improves the odds for people to use the skills for questionable purposes.

    The temple was also criticized for charging as much as 100,000 yuan for incense. Some people complain that the temple and the abbot are only interested in hosting wealthy entrepreneurs, movie stars, government officials and foreign guests, rather than more humble pilgrims to the temple.

    The abbot himself was also accused of living a ‘luxurious’ life in contrast with the traditional belief of Buddhists to be as frugal as possible.

    Nicknamed the “CEO of Shaolin,” Shi Yongxin has promoted Shaolin in areas involving movies, performances and tourism. In 2006, the abbott was awarded a luxury sports car by the government in Henan for his contributions to the local tourism industry.

    His plans to build new Shaolin temples in Tianjin and Taiwan were criticized as an attempt to exploit the Shaolin brand.

    Shaolin Temple and the abbot have said these efforts are aimed at promoting the Shaolin culture on the world stage.

    The latest hacker attacks have served to spark fresh anger and criticism against their strategies.

    One blogger wrote “Anybody who understands the truth of Buddhism would be critical of the current Buddhist temples…Even if this reasonable and sincere letter of apology was from the hackers, it is worth attention from the Shaolin Temple because it tells the common views of many people who care about the future of the temple”.

    “The pure reputation of Shaolin Temple for hundreds of years has been tainted with the stink of money all over. How dare you still call yourself a monk?” said one comment on netease.com.

    Another blogger “Jiang Feng” wrote: “Monks are poor but respected. However, many monks now are pioneers of fashion. Their clothes, food, housing and transportation all use famous brands…Is it against the thousands of years of Buddhism culture?”

    – Ellen Zhu
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    Kung fu shrine under attack
    By Song Shengxia

    He was China's youngest Abbot in the Shaolin Temple – 22 when he ascended the throne. He was one of the first monks in China with an MBA. He is also the most controversial Buddhist here, allegedly for turning the shrine into a money-making machine.

    Now, he is in the spotlight again after hackers targeted the website established to promote Shaolin's shows and products worldwide.

    The hackers have posted a purported letter of confession on the site (shaolin.org. cn) in the name of the Abbot Shi Yongxin, who "admitted his guilt" in commercializing the temple generally considered as the cradle of China's traditional martial art, or Kung fu.

    The Temple's website remained inaccessible until the time of going to press Thursday.

    The letter and a photo of Shi in a sitting posture were not visible on the temple's website shortly after the attack Wednesday. But the screen shot has been circulated across Chinese websites, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported Thursday.

    The letter, shown with Shi's signature and written in the first person, summarized the history of the Temple and his own growth path.

    "Over almost a decade as Shaolin's abbot, I have done my best to convert Shaolin from a small shrine to a top-notch international attraction. I felt proud with a sense of accomplishment. But now, increasingly, I feel guilt and regret over what I have done," it states.

    "Its rapid development is at the expense of sacrificing the tranquility and sanctity of the Temple ... I hope to not proceed further on the commercial path and become a sinner in the eyes of Shaolin and Buddhism," it reads.

    The Temple's Master Shi Yanyu denied the abbot having written the letter, according to the newspaper.

    "The hackers' action is patently illegal and we'll let our lawyers handle the case," Qiang Daliang, manager of Henan Shaolin Temple Development Company, told the Global Times.

    Speculation is that Shaolin and Abbot Shi were targets of hackers and public criticism because Shi's effort to commercialize and internationalize Shaolin has offended those who saw these moves as a departure from Shaolin tradition.

    This is nothing new for Shi, who is a highly controversial figure both at home and abroad. His very rise to the top as an abbot in 1987 – six years after he joined Shaolin – aroused suspicion. That did not deter him from pressing ahead with reform of the temple.

    He set up the country's first temple-based website in 1996. He was one of 18 monks in a half-year course on business administration at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, leading to The Los Angeles Times calling him the "CEO in a monk's robe."

    He spent much time travelling overseas – for meetings, in Kung fu delegations and cultivating elite society. The Shaolin Temple was the country's first temple to welcome former Russian president Putin.

    The Guardian newspaper of London reported that Shaolin was paid $10,000 for each performance in the US. There is no clear estimate of the funds raised by the temple's commercialization drive.

    Chinese News Weekly said the temple receives 1.5 million vistors a year and has a yearly income of 60 million yuan ($8.8 million), whereas The Guardian puts the figure at 10 million pounds (100 million yuan). In 2006, Henan officials presented to Abbot Shi a spectacular sports sedan worth one million yuan ($125, 000) for his contribution to local tourism.

    Shi's commercialization was denounced by fellow monks and local residents. Shi Yongguo, Shi Yongxin's senior fellow apprentice, and the abbot of the Fujian-based South Shaolin Temple, said Shi Yongxin's motive for a commercial Shaolin Temple went too far. "The South Shaolin Temple will not adopt such practices to become famous," he said.

    Li Zhenying, a Dengfeng resident living near the Shaolin Temple, said Shi is a controversial figure locally as many believe that monks should keep away from business practices. "What he did over the years is seek personal gain and fame," he said.

    However, Shang Qiumin, chief of the Tourism Service Department of Shaolin, a Dengfeng-based tourism agency affiliated to the Shaolin Temple, is supportive of Shi Yongxin's controversial actions. He said the current abbot's move represents the general trend in the administration of the temple and has had its benefits.

    "The living standard of monks has improved greatly thanks to Shi's effort, and the temple has never attracted so much attention before," said the 52-year-old, who served as secretary of the late abbot Shi Xingzheng from 1985 to 1988.

    Zhou Xueying a history professor at Nanjing University, said it was for history to judge the merits of Shi's reform. "Buddhism has been secularized since the time of the Song Dynasty. It is inevitable for Shaolin and other temples such as Wutaishan to ride on the modernization tide and move into the future," he said.

    Although it may be reasonable to question the abbot's commercialization drive, he said it was unreasonable to wreck the temple's website to vent anger.

    "That is certainly not a good way of communicating and resolving the issue," he said.

    Guo Qiang and Liang Chen contributed to the story
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    Shaolin Temple Under Hacker Attack

    Shaolin Temple Under Hacker Attack
    By Ellen Zhu, WSJ, November 13, 2009

    Beijing, China -- Shaolin Temple, the world-famous birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu, was attacked by hackers twice this month, reflecting long-standing ill feeling about the temple’s aggressive commercial activities in recent years.

    Wednesday morning, the temple’s Web site showed a “Letter of Apology” that purported to be written by Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin, outlining a series of misdeeds to gain fame and wealth for himself over the past years. Just seven days earlier, hackers had posted on the site a black note — written in stylized Chinese calligraphy — reading “Shaolin evildoer Shi Yongxin, go to hell.”

    Management of the temple said the letter was fabricated by hackers and quickly closed the site. The temple said it has called in police to help with the investigation.

    Meanwhile, snapshots of the letter and the note have been broadly circulated on Chinese Web forums.

    Some excerpts from the “apology” letter (now closed):

    "I feel shamed in front of Shaolin Temple and so many Shaolin monks and worshippers. Looking back on my experience sinking from an abbot to a sinner, all I feel is deep sorry and regret.

    Since I was named abbot of Shaolin Temple in 1999, i have hooked up with local government officials to push through demolitions and construction in areas near the temple.

    I gained fame for Shaolin Temple and myself at the price of the purity and holiness of the Buddhist temple.

    In order to satisfy my private desires, I traveled in a fancy SUV with a chauffeur and jetliner, spent 160,000 yuan for a tailor-made cassock from Nanjing. I also raised a mistress (split now). I stayed in luxurious hotels and lived a corrupt life.

    Today I borrowed the Web page of Shaolin Temple to publish this letter of apology. I don’t dare to ask for forgiveness of Buddha but just hope I won’t go even ****her on this path of commercialization."

    Some details in the letter appeared to draw on previous criticism of excessive commercialization of the Buddhist temple.

    For example, Shaolin Temple opened a Taobao shop last year to sell a variety of Shaolin-related products, including a Kung Fu instruction manual, “Shaolin Kungfu Secret Strategies,” which was offered for sale at 9,999 yuan (around $146). Critics say that publishing the temple’s internal Kungfu teachings improves the odds for people to use the skills for questionable purposes.

    The temple was also criticized for charging as much as 100,000 yuan for incense. Some people complain that the temple and the abbot are only interested in hosting wealthy entrepreneurs, movie stars, government officials and foreign guests, rather than more humble pilgrims.

    The abbot himself was also accused of living a “luxurious” life in contrast with the traditional belief of Buddhists to be as frugal as possible.

    Nicknamed the “CEO of Shaolin,” Shi Yongxin has promoted Shaolin in areas involving movies, performances and tourism. In 2006, the abbott was awarded a luxury sports car by the government in Henan for his contributions to the local tourism industry.

    His plans to build new Shaolin temples in Tianjin and Taiwan were criticized as an attempt to exploit the Shaolin brand.

    Shaolin Temple and the abbot have said these efforts are aimed at promoting the Shaolin culture on the world stage.

    The latest hacker attacks have served to spark fresh anger and criticism against their strategies.

    One blogger wrote, “Anybody who understands the truth of Buddhism would be critical of the current Buddhist temples…even if this reasonable and sincere letter of apology was from the hackers, it is worth attention from the Shaolin Temple because it tells the common views of many people who care about the future of the temple”.

    “The pure reputation of Shaolin Temple for hundreds of years has been tainted with the stink of money all over. How dare you still call yourself a monk?” said one comment on netease.com.

    Another blogger, “Jiang Feng,” wrote: “Monks are poor but respected. However, many monks now are pioneers of fashion. Their clothes, food, housing and transportation all use famous brands…is it against the thousands of years of Buddhism culture?”
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    omg... the shaolin tourist order is going to be turned upside down now...

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