Shaolin monks took part in alot of battles and were drafted into the military in various times in Chinese history.
they were like the special forces of today
below would be some of the more famous examples
The oldest evidence of Shaolin participation in combat is a stele from 728 that attests to two occasions: a defense of the monastery from bandits around 610 and their role in the defeat of Wang Shichong at the Battle of Hulao in 621.
Like most dynastic changes, the end of the Sui Dynasty was a time of upheaval and contention for the throne. Wang Shichong declared himself Emperor. He controlled the territory of Zheng and the ancient capital of Luoyang.
Overlooking Luoyang on Mount Huanyuan was the Cypress Valley Estate, which had served as the site of a fort during the Jin and a commandery during the Southern Qi. SuiEmperor Wen had bestowed the estate on a nearby monastery called Shaolin for its monks to farm but Wang Shichong, realizing its strategic value, seized the estate and there placed troops and a signal tower, as well as establishing a prefecture called Yuanzhou.Furthermore, he had assembled an army at Luoyang to march on the Shaolin Temple itself.
The monks of Shaolin allied with Wang's enemy, Li Shimin, and took back the Cypress Valley Estate, defeating Wang's troops and capturing his nephew Renze.
Without the fort at Cypress Valley, there was nothing to keep Li Shimin from marching on Luoyang after his defeat of Wang's ally Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao, forcing Wang Shichong to surrender.
Li Shimin's father was the first Tang Emperor and Shimin himself became its second.
Thereafter Shaolin enjoyed the royal patronage of the Tang
Though the Shaolin Monastery Stele of 728 attests to these incidents in 610 and 621 when the monks engaged in combat, it does not allude to martial training in the monastery, or to any fighting technique in which its monks specialized. Nor do any other sources from the Tang, Song and Yuan periods allude to military training at the temple.
According to Meir Shahar, this is explained by a confluence of the late Ming fashion for military encyclopedias and, more importantly, the conscription of civilian irregulars, including monks, as a result of Ming military decline in the 16th century.
Pirates
In the 1540s and 1550s, Japanesepirates known as wokou raided China's eastern and southeastern coasts on an unprecedented scale.
The geographer Zheng Ruoceng provides the most detailed of the 16th century sources which confirm that, in 1553, Wan Biao, Vice Commissioner in Chief of the Nanjing Chief Military Commission, initiated the conscription of monks?including some from Shaolin?against the pirates.Warrior monks participated in at least four battles: at the Gulf of Hangzhou in spring of 1553 and in the Huangpu River delta at Wengjiagang in July 1553, Majiabang in spring of 1554, and Taozhai in autumn of 1555.
The monks suffered their greatest defeat at Taozhai, where four of them fell in battle; their remains were buried under the Stūpa of the Four Heroic Monks (Si yi seng ta) at Mount She near Shanghai.
The monks won their greatest victory at Wengjiagang.On 21 July 1553, 120 warrior monks led by the Shaolin monk Tianyuan defeated a group of pirates and chased the survivors over ten days and twenty miles.The pirates suffered over one hundred casualties and the monks only four.
missing from that is a small force of monks who rescued the future Tang Emperor, Taizhong (Li Shiming) from an ambush
How could you say they've never fought in wars when they were part of the military?
the war against the pirates and it was a war took around a decade before it ended and the monks were a key part of it
Sanctuarys Monks... They are called so and they look like that. Not maybe all of them but particular this guy that are one of the best. I wonder how many tattooes this guy got out of those 1001 gods.
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Shaolin monks took part in alot of battles and were drafted into the military in various times in Chinese history.
they were like the special forces of today
below would be some of the more famous examples
I don't know of any monk sects in the world that have ever applied martial dicipline to war. Monks are ritualists, not crusaders.
...can anyone justify the name Monk over Zealot?
they were like the special forces of today
below would be some of the more famous examples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kung_Fu
missing from that is a small force of monks who rescued the future Tang Emperor, Taizhong (Li Shiming) from an ambush
the war against the pirates and it was a war took around a decade before it ended and the monks were a key part of it
What!?
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Never heard about Shaolin Monks!?
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Shaolin Monks are disciplined FIGHTERS.
and in the world of Diablo, Blizzard says that the monks are like that, then they are!
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That answers my question. Thanks.