Shaolin Monk Diet The warrior monks of Shaolin have gained a worldwide reputation for their devoted study and impressive displays of traditional kung fu. The feats of athletic prowess and martial arts skill are the result of intense daily study, morning to night. Every aspect of daily life, in...
Shaolin monk Shi Dejian told Kung Fu Magazine.com thatthere is one class of monks who are allowed to consume animal products like meat. Known as Shaolin warrior monks, they train in martial arts but do not take the vows of a Buddhist monk and are not required to be vegetarians, Deijian ...
One scholarsuggests that being trapped under Five Elements Mountain is a symbolic death (remember that Monkey claims to be free of the Five Elements after attaining immortality), meaning that the hellish diet is his karmic punishment in the afterlife, and his later release is a symbolic reincarnat...