The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival, San Francisco, CA Oct 8-11,2015.

[GeneChing]

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Finally coming to our area.

Invitation to The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival 2015·San Francisco
发布日期：2015-05-08
INVITATION
The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival is scheduled to take place in San Francisco,USA from Oct 8,2015 till Oct 11,2015. The Festival is co-sponsored by Shaolin Temple of China and The World Shaolin Association( in preparation) and will be co-hosted by United Studios of Self Defense and The North American Shaolin Federation.

The Festival events includes World Peace Blessing Prayer,Shaolin Kungfu Test Tournament and Lecture on Chan Cultivation,Kungfu and Buddhism Medicine as well as Religious Dialogue.Thousands of Shaolin fans and teams on Chan Buddhism and Kungfu from North America and World will gather in San Francisco to participate the great event to celebrate their own Festival.

The Continental Shaolin Association is a non-profit organization spontaneously established by the Shaolin Culture Fans. The 1st European Shaolin Cultural Festival was held in September 2012 in Berlin and Vienna. The 1st Northern American Shaolin Cultural Festival was held in October 2013 in Harvard University, UN Headquarter, LA Convention Center of USA and the 3rd European Shaolin Cultural Festival was inaugurated in October in London and Oxford University.The Festivals has been widely welcome and highly evaluated by people of all walks of life.

With the smooth preparatory founding of The World Shaolin Association which is organized and sponsored by Shaolin Temple of China and some 40 countries and cites of 5 continents,the 4th Shaolin Culture Festival attempt to be open for all the Shaolin fans of all the countries of the world.We wish that the world Shaolin Association and Shaolin Cultural Festival will become the spiritual home and platform of communication and exchange for all the Shaolin culture organizations and Shaolin disciples to promote Shaolin Culture inheritance and benefit the human beings.

As the origin of Chan Buddhism, Shaolin Kungfu, Shaolin Temple of China are well known for its 1500 years legend.Shaolin Temple and Chan Buddhism is a fruit of human civilization emerged in the Sino-Foreign Cultural exchange. It plays a very important role in the history of Chinese Culture and Religion. Its influence spread not only in the Asia but also in Europe and America. Shaolin Kungfu represents the perfect integration of unique perception of wisdom of Chan Buddhism on Human life and the cream of Chinese Kungfu technique. It reflects the supreme spiritual realm and culture value of the combination of Kungfu and Chan and Heaven and Human. Shaolin Cultural Festival aims to open the door for sharing the wisdom of Chan Buddhism and Shaolin Kungfu inheritance to realize the world peace and human health and happiness.

Your timely presence and visionary support and instruction on the festival will be greatly appreciated.

Buddha Bliss All.
Abbot of Shaolin Temple, China
Mar 15, 2015

Schedule for The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival (2015·San Francisco)
发布日期：2015-05-08

1.Name：
The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival(San Francisco)

2.Sponsor:
Shaolin Temple of China,
World Shaolin Association( in preparation)

3.Organizer:
United Studios of Self Defense,
The North American Shaolin Federation

4.Date:
Oct 7,2015 to Oct 12,2015

5.Location：
1)THE REGENCY CENTER, 1290 Sutter Street San Francesco,CA 94109, United States of America
2)Stanford University

6.Activities：
1)Shaolin Kungfu Test Tournament
2)Annual meeting of The North American Shaolin Federation
3)Shaolin Kungfu Show
4)Exhibitions of Chan Buddhism（tea ceremony、incense ceremony、calligraphy、painting、photography）
5)Culture Forum
6)Shaolin Kungfu Seminar

[sha0lin1]

So the second Shaolin Temple Cultural Festival is supposed to be happening in October in San Francisco as announced by the Shaolin Temple. I cannot find any information on this on the websites of those who are sponsoring the event or the U.S. Shaolin Temple. Anyone know if this is happening or not?

[GeneChing]

The main promoter for this is Shi Yanran. Oh, well, look at that - he redid his website.

Anyway, Yanran oversaw the The 10th Anniversary of Shaolin Temple Day last year, so it should be coming together very soon. I saw him just prior to our tournament, or maybe it was just after, and he said things were progressing well. Stay tuned.

You think you might come out, sha0lin1? If so, we must hook up.

[sha0lin1]

Thanks Gene, I looked for the info on the festival but could not find a website or a way for my students to register for it. Do you have any website or registration information? More than likely I will be going. I am also contemplating going to Shaolin Temple in September. Sorry, by second, I meant here in the U.S.

[GeneChing]

...but as soon as I hear anything, I'll post it here. Hopefully, everyone here will do likewise.

And I got you on the 2nd part. You know how Chinese like long titles for stuff. I think that's because with the characters, everything looks smaller when written out. So it's the 4th in the world but the 2nd in the U.S, which means they will probably follow your lead and call it the 2nd U.S. as 4 is an unlucky number to the Chinese as it's a ****phone for 'death'. Eh, who knows?

Anyway, hope you make it out. If you have the time, I invite you and your students to come by the office here. It's a bit of a trek from S.F. - we're 40+ miles south across the bay, but I'd be happy to give you all a personal tour of our headquarters here.

[sha0lin1]

Of course I will, how could I turn down an offer like that. I think Xingying will be going too, we talked about it Sunday. You got a Twin Peaks out there? I sure wish they would do these festivals in the summer time. Last Festival a few of my students could not compete because it was too far to go for just a few days during the school year. Probably will be the same this year. I think that if they did this in June, July, or August, it might be a bigger turn out. Lots of people in the rest of the U.S. would go not only for the tournament but for vacation too.