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Dear Reader,
In this issue of CURIOUS THINGS... |
BUDO TRADITIONS PART II:
THE BUDO TEACHER OR SENSEI |
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It was in the dojo that I first experienced people addressing others as "Sensei." I had heard the word before, but up to that point, I had called my martial teachers (boxing) by their proper names: "Mr. Sheridan," or sometimes, "Coach."
What's in a name? When it's, "Sensei," there can be more...and less than you think...
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FACTS & FICTION: BODHIDHARMA & THE WARRIOR MONKS OF THE SHAOLIN MONASTERY
BODHIDHARMA / WARRIOR MONKS / LOHAN FORMS / MODERN KUNG FU |
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The first time I saw Master Po on the original KUNG FU TV program, I knew he was the embodiment of everything true and good about the Asian martial arts. For years I believed in all or most of the martial stories of warrior monks, mystical Indian priests, and the arcane Lohan forms preserved on ancient scrolls, hidden away from the world.
I believed in it all...until I began to do reasonable historical due diligence. Through my ongoing research, and through numerous contributions from others, I find that in some cases, not only did the king have no clothes...there was no king to begin with...
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