Wow wonderful tour and history lesson!
Reminds me of the saying I enjoyed again this week. Something like 'if you separate intellectualism from combat, you will have wimps running things and fools doing the battling.' Not exact but I love the fighting spirit of these intellectual and spiritual leaders at Shaolin.
Well said actually! There is something about that fighting spirit that atracts me, but also to learn that it was monks who developed the these fighting tecniques.