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Thank you Barnacles for lime green bunkbeds, yellow walls and a pub crawl that brings drunk people to pull the fire alarm at 2am!
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Mahabodhi Temple
Me
A camel on a bridge. What the hell is this doing at Shaolin?
A wushu demonstration. Those are traditional Shaolin hats. The child lives up there, he hasn't touched the ground in 6 months.
More Wushu, heh.
Sanda training
Look at them all, like ants. Kungfu ants! HAH!
A view from Damo's cave of the valley in which the Shaolin Temple sits
Look at the craftsmanship, you don't see that anymore, you really don't.
The door of the 1000 Buddha hall. The Buddhas go in when they are small, then they get fat and can't escape.
The outside of the 1000 Buddha hall.
A carving outside the 1000 Buddha hall. Note the small pictures of Qigong exercises on the wall behind.
Some of the younger monks giving the temple a good scrub.
The bell tower at the Shaolin Temple.
One of the large, inscribed stone tablets outside the Daxiong hall.
The Daxiong hall at Shaolin. There are three golden Buddha statues inside, one of the past, one of the present and one of the future. I think it's a load of nonsense but I've always been a bit of a scrooge ;)
This guy's been holding his breath since the temple was built, yet he's still standing!
You're my wife now!
Yorma riding an invisible horse through the Shaolin temple.
Me getting crazy low in Mantis pose.
Um, yeah, it's me... at... Shaolin. Like it says in the title :|
The turnstiles at the Shaolin Temple complex.