Quote Originally Posted by lkfmdc View Post

the entire shaolin thing is absurd when you understand that in 1986 the place was in ruins and there were only 5 or 6 old monks there... the whole thing is a rackett
This is EXACTLY what I wrote... looking at it again, I had intended to say "that prior to 1986"

Even having said what I did say, I didn't not say what you claim I said....

And I have more than documented, not just with "foreign sources" but with also eyewitness accounts from actual residents of the province, what I said, which is that the "modern Shaolin movement" dates to about 1985