Photo by fritzhoffmannschinawork / Shaolin kung fu master Dejian at the Chanwuyi center he founded, high in the Song Mountains in Dengfeng, in China's Henan Province. Dejian moved to the mountaintop in 1994, when he began reconstruction of the Sanhuang Stronghold temple. He is a 31st-generation apprentice of the Shaolin Temple Caodong Zheng sect and an 18-generation inheritor of zen, martial arts, and Chinese medicine of the Yonghuatang school.
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