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Stanislav Bereznyuk
>is now Qinghai province) and is documented to have studied an INDIAN
>system.
>movements found in Lion's Roar tradition can be found in Indian martial
>arts but not in Chinese...
The thing with the Tibetan culture is very interesting, it has had various
influences and represent lots of diversity of origins, which make it
uniquely TIBETAN, it's not pure Indian, nor pure Chinese. The historical
exchanges between the inland China and other parts of the world by route
of the land and its unique geographical location precipitated this.
From what I have seen on the Lama system that you guys teaching, there are
lots of stuff look like Southern Chinese techniques, i.e. hand strikes as
well as many of the throw and take downs. That to me is a sign of the
mix/cross when the system was passaged in the Southern China. I bet Indian
system would not look alike in this type of set up.
>political correctness and nationalism in the extreme resulted in huge
>attempt to change history of art, including a really stupid story about
>how Damo founded HOp Ga
Chinese martial art history was a blank area until recent years cus no
orthodox history recorded this area. Damo was a significant MONK who
visited Shaolin, though many tried to mark him as the origin of Shaolin
art, historians always questioned this hypothesis. He never brought a
complete martial system to China, what's come down to the shaolin line is a
different story all together.
Fuchen
Stanislav Bereznyuk (Novosibirsk, Russia)