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 Sifu (master) Shi Yan Ming is a real Shaolin monk of the 34th generation, Abbot and Founder of the USA Shaolin Temple in New York City and the Templo Shaolin de Mexico AC.

Shi Yan Ming

Shi Yan Ming entered the Shaolin Temple in Henan at an early age. There, he lived and trained until 1992. During that time, he became the head coach, and was featured in the Temple’s printed publications. His incredible displays of internal power are described, in books and newspapers of the eighties, until 1992, when he decided to settle in the United States to found the USA Shaolin Temple and spread the Shaolin arts in the West.
Nowadays, Sifu is the most famous and admired Shaolin monk in the world.There is no magazine, newspaper or documentary that talks about the Shaolin Temple in China without mentioning Shi Yan Ming. In the book published by the Chinese Government itself in 1985 about the history of the Shaolin Temple, Sifu Shi Yan Ming appears in every page. His face is known around the world and his voice is heard everywhere.

Time magazine has named “The prodigal son of Shaolin”. He has been on the cover of “Inside KungFu” and “Black Belt” twice.

He has appeared 7 times in documentaries on the Discovery Channel: “Beyond Human Indurance and “Physical Feats” , and has been twice studied by scientists for the National Geographic, NBC and The Learning Channel on television experiments that attempt to measure his strength and control of internal energy.

He is mentioned in several Hip-Hop songs by american bands such as the Wu-Tang Clan and in MTV.

Some of Shi Yan Ming’s most famous students are actors Bokeem Woodbine, Wesley Snipes, Tricky, Kadeem Hardison, Michelle Forbes, Rosie Perez, film director Jim Jarmusch, John Leguizamo, Björk, Pink and others.

On the silver screen, he has appeared in Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog” and in Seth Rosenthal’s “King of the Jungle”, with John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Annabella Sciorra.
In 2005 he became the first Shaolin monk to give a lecture at Harvard University

Now Sifu Shi Yan Ming has founded his temples in Vienna, South Africa, Mexico, Chile and Trinidad and Tobago, which have joined the one in New York, where he receives people from all over the world, from low-income people to famous stars, like the members of Wu-Tang Clan, Bokeem Woodbine, Tricky, Kadeem Hardison, Michelle Forbes, Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes and Björk.
In Mexico, the Templo Shaolin de Mexico AC, founded by Shi Yan Ming is under the charge of this Mexican students of the 35th generation, and offers the chance to learn directly from Sifu in his annual visits and seminars, as well as continuing learning with his disciples in Mexico, and have exchanges with their brothers in the rest of the Sifu’s temples in the world.

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