Shaolin Liuhebafa
It is believed that Shaolin Wu Gong (chin.: Shàolínwǔgōng 少林武功) and all its derivates belong to the hard or external arts (chin.: wai 外), but in fact in the Shaolin training, internal arts (chin.: nei 内) and external are both interrelated. One of the most well-known painting of the Shaolin Temple is the painting in The White clothes Hall (chin.: Bai Yi Dian 白衣殿) , situated at the east side of 1000 Buddha’s Hall (chin.: Qianfo Dian 千佛殿) showing on the north and south walls murals of Shaolin monks in their daily wugong armed and unarmed practice in sixteen pairs. These murals (chin.: Bìhuà 壁畫) are a vivid representation of various styles of Shaolin Boxing (chin.: Shàolínquánfǎ 少林拳法) of the ancient times. Very few know that in the centre of these murals there is the painting of a famous Monk with the name Shi Zhan Ju. He was a famous Shaolin Martial Monk and he has been practicing a kind of Shaolin boxing that is called Six Directions Method (chin.: liùhébǎfǎ 六合把法). This rare art of Shaolin Monastery still exists as part of the Buddhist Tradition of the Shaolin Temple (chin.: Shàolín chuántǒng 少林傳統) and it is known as one of the highest levels of Buddhist Shaolin Wugong.
Many confuse the Shaolin Liuhebafa and Liuhebafa (chin.: liùhébāfǎ 六合八法 also called: Six Harmonies Eight Methods, water boxing, or Hwa Yu after the mountain where it was conceived), of the Daoist monk (chin.: dàozhǔ 道主) Chen Bo (chin.: chénbó 陈搏, 871-989) which is something wrong; or even identified with Eight Methods (chin.: bāfǎ 捌法) which was developed by Li De Mao (chin.: lǐdémào 李德茂) during the Qing dynasty (chin.: Qīng cháo 清朝, 1644 - 1911); which is also wrong.
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Posted by Venerable Shi Yan Long on 01/02 at 09:24 PM
