Originally Posted by
lkfmdc
Sing Lung likely was NOT tibetan in the ethnic sense we think of today, he was from "Tibet" and in that time "tibet" included parts of what is now China such as Qinghai
Considering the stories of him dueling, killing people, beating them, etc he may not have been a "monk" (or he was a very bad one)
The monastery where he lived is a hot bed of martial arts, the entire area is. Several close by monasteries (including where CTS was raised) were also martial arts hot beds
I tend to believe now that most of the southern martial arts were much more incestuous than we have been led to believe or even want to believe
Indeed, they have far more in common then they have different.
Sure some stuff may seem to be "unique" but once you get out of that "stylistic bubble" you see that is not the case.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !