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Shaolin takes overPosted by Eric Mu on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 4:27 PM
 Life News November 25, 2008 The Shaolin Temple, perhaps China's most well-known Buddhist temple, will test out its successful business model in a new environment when it takes over the management of four temples in Kunming. A contract signed by Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin, and Liu Yuejin, director of Kunming's Guandu District, turns over management of the four temples to Shaolin for the next twenty years. According to the contract, Shaolin monks will introduce Shaolin features, including what has been touted as an "integration of Zen and martial arts," into the operational management of Tuwang, Fading, Miaozhan, and Guangyin Temples. In exchange, over the next 20 years, all revenue generated through donations, tourism, and the sale of religious items will belong to Shaolin.  Shi Yongxin said that the influence of the Shaolin brand will give a significant boost to the popularity of these temples. He denied that the takeover was part of expansion plans at his own temple, as well as the charge that he is running the temple like a chain store. Earlier this year, Shaolin was criticized for opening an online store selling a variety of Shaolin-related products, including a book priced at 9,999 yuan that purportedly contained the temple's kung fu and medicinal secrets. Links and Sources
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Comments on Shaolin takes over
thats just sad. is there nothing sacred in china anymore? now capitalism is destroying what communism left over...
Shaolin brand?! A great way to loose its identity...
Check your local Shaolin(TM) Temple for the latest Tang Lang Fist secrete teaching. Have you Shaolined today?
today's news should be yang's death, please danwei report on this.
I wonder why the local department of religious affairs wasn't the one signing the document with Shaolin temple?
Fools, the goal of martial arts is to improve everyones way of life, if anything this is a good thing, all of you are greedy and like to keep secrets, nonsense I say, let the secrets be known and let the pure of heart find them easier.