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The Shaolin Monastery charts for the very first time in any language the annals of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. With this meticulously researched and eminently readable review Meir Shahar considers the economical political and spiritual factors that led Shaolin monks to overlook the Buddhist prohibition against assault and instead create preventing techniques that by the 21st hundred years have spread across the world. Meir Shahar is associate teacher in the Dept of East Asian Studies Tel Aviv University or college.
