Those who grew up in the United States in the mid-1970s probably watched, or were at least familiar with, the television series Kung Fu. It starred David Carradine as a monk and kung fu expert traveling in the Old West in search of his brother. The show featured frequent flashbacks to his training at the Shaolin Monastery in China. Although the story was completely fictional, the Shaolin Monastery is a real place, believed to date back to the fifth century and still operating today. The monastery, also called Shaolin Temple,…
