Shaolin: Temple of Zen: Photographs by Justin Guariglia

[Keboh]

How can you tell which Shaolin monks are doing real martial arts and which are wushu?

Are the people in this Album genuine?
http://www.cgcmall.com/Shaolin_Kung_Fu_p/b00shao.htm

[GeneChing]

Unfortunately, you have to sign up for the free trial to get the whole article and I didn't feel like doing that. I'm just not into web subscriptions. Here at KFM, it's all free, as long as you all keep supporting the magazine.

Here's the teaser, nonetheless...

Not just for kicks
A US photographer is helping Shaolin monks shed that fight-club image, writes David Momphard

Nov 09, 2007
Shaolin Temple, in Dengfeng, Henan, often conjures an image of a lone kung fu monk surrounded by a dozen bad guys who are about to take a beating. American photographer Justin Guariglia received a similar impression at the historic site over the eight years he researched Shaolin Temple of Zen, his recently published coffee table book, the subject of his lecture to the Asia Society at the Helena May tonight. ...