Shaolin Temple Cultural Center is a nonprofit subsidiary organization under the Songshan Shaolin Temple in China. Our aim is to preserve the 1500 year history of the Chan Sect of the Songshan Shaolin Temple, to introduce and promote our characteristic eastern culture of Shaolin to the world. We are actively involved in local charities and community services; with the Buddhist spirit of mercy, wisdom, aspiration and courage, we are wishing to build the “l(fā)and of purity” in the world.Despite the existence of diverse religions, races, cultures and of various nations, we would like to expand the thousand years’ Shaolin culture of “Chan (Zen), material arts and medicine”, to encourage the cultural exchange between the east and the west, and to promote the Shaolin spirit of: performing Kung-Fu in the Chan spirit, looking beyond ones way of life and reaching the ultimate wisdom and courage without hindrance and fear. Hope becomes the advocate and practitioner to promote spiritual and physical health in the Shaolin cultural styl