The Shaolin Monastery

The Chinese monk Fa Xian ( Fa-Hsien) and Xuan Zang ( Hiuen Tsang) travelled to India and brought back Buddhist scriptures. The Indian scholar Kumarajiva translated sutras into Chinese and Indian monk Bodhidharma became the first patriarch of the Shaolin Monastery in China.

中国高僧法显和玄奘千里迢迢来到印度取得佛经，印度学者鸠摩罗什把佛经翻译成了中文，而印度高僧菩提达摩成为了中国少林寺的第一位住持。

"Thirteen stick Buddhist monks support the Tang Dynasty" is indeed a martial event which initiates the tradition of Shaolin Monastery' involvement into political and military affairs, and has become the origination of Shaolin Wushu and Shaolin martial monks as tracing back in history.

但十三僧助唐毕竟是武事，因此也不能说它和后来的少林武术、少林武僧毫无关系。它为少林寺参予政治与军事开创了传统，并成为少林武术、武僧追述历史的必然方向。

Shaolin Monastery is the Mahayana Buddhist monastery perhaps best known to the Western world.

少林寺可能是对于西方人来说最熟知的大乘佛教寺院。

At present, the monastery is striving to explore and disseminate Shaolin Kung Fu culture.

现在的少林寺非常重视“少林功夫”文化的挖掘和传扬.

By around AD500, Buddhist monks at the Shaolin Monastery in central China had developed a form of martial art to exercise their bodies and protect themselves against attacks by bandits.

公元500年左右，中原少林寺的和尚们发明了一种武术形式，既可以锻炼身体，又可以保护自己不受强盗攻击。

One of the earliest mentions of Shaolin Kung Fu is from the 7th century when it was used to defend the Shaolin Monastery.

其中最早提到少林功夫是从公元7世纪时，用来保卫少林寺之用。

This method of warfare from the Shaolin Monastery, is composed of many branches more or less acrobatic.

这种作战方法，从少林寺的，是由许多分支较多或较少的杂技。