Huashoutai, or commonly known in its Cantonese name Wa Sau Toi (), was a

Buddhist monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may ...

on the sacred mountain Luofushan. It was destroyed in 1949. It is located in

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, Guangdong, China.https://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Huashoutai The tradition of Lung Ying can be traced back to the Shaolin Huashoutai Temple, the Cantonese Wa Sau Toi, on Luo Fu Shan mountain in Guangdong province, Southern China. Developed by the Buddhist monks , it provides physical health and wellbeing and protects others. It also develops energetic and spiritual connection to the universe. Lung Ying means 'Dragon Shape/Style'. Till 1890, it was practiced in the monasteries.

History

The Chan teacher and

Southern Dragon Kung Fu The movements of the Southern Dragon style (traditional name Lung Ying "Dragon Form"; ) of Shaolin kung fu, Shaolin Boxing are based on the mythical Chinese dragon. The Dragon style is an imitative-style that was developed based on the imagined ...

master Daai Yuk was a monk at Wa Sau Toi. Lai Chi, the founder of the Wu Jo An nunnery in

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, was 35th generation in the Caodong school of Chan Buddhism from Wa Sau Toi. The Shaolin Kung Fu classes are held in Berlin Pankow, Germany.

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