Master Hai Deng, a prominent figure in the world of traditional martial arts, has left us at the age of 87, yet his passing ignites a storm of controversy rather than a collective mourning. Who was ...

Many times the master had told Hu about awakening from dreams in which his martial arts ancestors, long-dead monks from the Shaolin Temple, visited him. They came bearing wisdom collected over ...

Others say the monk Pu’en received his spear technique from a divine being, while the Wudang school of martial arts was founded by an immortal Daoist saint, Zhang Sanfeng. 4. Shaolin monks might ...