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Buddhist Martial Arts of Korea: Emerging from the Shadow of Shaolin

I blame David Carradine, may he rest in peace. If he hadn’t done such a fine job portraying Kwai Chang Caine for three seasons on the Kung Fu  TV series, chances are the Western world — or, at least, America — wouldn’t think that China’s Shaolin Temple is the sole source of Buddhist martial arts in Asia. Back in the mid-1980s, I first heard rumors of a little-known Buddhist fighting art in South Korea. But seeing how that was long before the adv…
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Black Belt Magazine broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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