Shi Yan Ming didn’t intend to make me feel bad. But when a 40-something journalist asks a 59-year-old interviewee to confirm his age, it’s not really appropriate to lift a straight-kneed leg over your ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Think of Buddhist monks and you probably imagine practitioners sitting stark still trying to quiet their minds. Who knew that the violent martial art kung fu has it’s own ...

Though Shi Yan Ming is a world-renowned kung fu master, he was lucky to survive a poverty-stricken childhood as a peasant in China. He was born in 1964 in Henan Province, the heart-center of the ...

The martial arts, with their emphasis on discipline, offer fantastic training for both the body and the mind. “The Shaolin Workout” (Rodale, 2006), by Shi Yan Ming, combines kung fu moves, stances and ...

Cal them New York’s kung-fu hustlers. Outwardly, they appear to bemild-mannered citizens – Abdu the deli worker, Yu-Lin the history student and Urlich the German professor. But they’re so much more: ...

A CHARITY appeal has been launched in Dorset to build a temple devoted to Chan Buddhism. The campaign is being led by Shi Yan Ming, a warrior monk trained at the Shaolin Temple in China, who has lived ...

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