Focus the Chi in the morning

Quest for Enlightenment

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May 1st 2005
Possibly my greatest aspiration when deciding to travel to China was to find an opportunity to learn martial arts in a traditional setting. When I heard about Wuwei Si, a buddhist monastary near Dali, where one can live and study Taichi and Kung-fu with monks, I had to check it out... On the side of ... Mountain, hidden in forest, I found an old wooden compound, nicely restored in its tradit ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more