Kung Fu : Shaolin or India?
Is Kung Fu originated from India ?
Kung Fu is a type of martial art which is the most powerful combat strategies in the world. There are multiple types of martial arts in the world like Karate (Japan), Judo (Japan), Taekwondo (Korea), Kickboxing, boxing, Sumo wrestling, Muai Thai etc. Kung Fu's largest Gurukul is in Shaolin, China. Today, Thousands of students are practicing thousands of moves, kicks and tricks. They have powers of controlling water, fire, air, land and sky. The powers are gained by them through extreme high meditation. Even though some masters hang themselves upon sharp things but never get injured.
In Chinese, Kung Fu means any activity which is done with speed and accuracy. So it has no such rules for doing a fight once you do a fight just do it, this is the only thing which makes Kung Fu different from other martial arts. Kung Fu is world famous and everyone thinks that Kung Fu is Originated from China, only some of the population would know that Kung Fu is originated from India.
In early 1500s, there was a king Sugandan of Pallava dynasty in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India has three kids from whom the youngest kid was Daruma Bodhidharma. He was very strong and intelligent. For the protection of the umpire, the kings and ministers derived some tricks of combat from animals which is very helpful at the time of war which was called as 'Kalari Patayu', along with it as Hindu dharma used Ayurveda for medical purposes, it was recited by every student. At that time, there was a system in Which there is a Raj Mata who is mother of the King and has a power of punishing the king in olden times. Once Raj Mata of their umpire ordered Daruma Bodhidharma to reject and leave all royalties and go towards north-east. Daruma accepted and left everything and gone towards China on a horse. In jungle, he started updating his spiritual practices, he became a Buddhist and increased his martial arts skills at extreme master level and he had the power of controlling everything , even a person (Like magic). After one year of extreme practice on the way, he finally reached his destination, he reached a Chinese village, at that time, chinese villagers were severely attacked by warriors in ordered to be exploited and were unable to do anything. There was head person in village who used to know astrology and do predictions about weather, to know about their harvests. Before fews days of arrival of Bodhidharma, he predicted that a large suffering will come, because of that when Daruma arrived they thought that the suffering which was predicted is none other then Daruma himself so they told him to leave their village. But the real suffering was started after he left, Chicken Pox kncked the door of their village and at that time there was no solution for that type of illness, Then Daruma came and cured everyone in the village with the knowledge of Ayurveda. Everyone in the village started worshipping Bodhidharma assuming him as God. Then, Daruma teached Ayurveda to chinese villagers. Then, he also started teaching martial arts, Kalari Patayu to villagers. As the time passed, they got powers like Bodhidharma.
Then one day, that astrologer predicted and said that if they burry Bodhidharma in land of china then all the types of illness and suffering will never come to china, to apply that, all villagers were afraid so they mixed poison in food of Daruma, When Daruma sat to eat, he got that there is poison in food and all villagers requested him to eat it so that they can burry him on that land and they also told him the reason. Daruma was a spiritual being and he accepted and ate that food and died and the villagers buried him and at that place a temple was formed of Daruma which is called as Shaolin temple in present time. Chinese people used to call him Dhammu.
And that's how Kung Fu was originated from India. The source of this post is from a book, if you want to know in detail buy that book. The book is mentioned below with download button from amazon.
