Way of the Warrior - Shorinji Kempo, the New Way [1/4]

Part of a eight part series documentary on the Martial Arts of south and south east Asia, originally broadcast on the BBC in the early 1980s. The final episode! Follows the recently developed Shorinji Kempo form from Japan which has close ties to a new school of Buddhism. This episode follows the main temple on Shikoku Island and talks about the history of its founding and founder, its current state in Japanese society and the future of the form//religious school. Enjoy! Part 1 of 4 parts.

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[ironmonkey2]

the swastikas were stolen from the Chinese Buddhist culture by the Germans who changed the angle of it and tried to give it their own meaning which is very negative!

[ricky81187]

wow ppl are dumb this is about martial arts and you guys talk about how christianity is bad and all this talk about incest justr shut up ppl even have incst in japan and other countrys i dont like it but hey thats them if they gotta keep a population going so lets shutup and watch this awsome video.

[ratonL]

Disregarding the religious tag it may have; what the Master Monk says is very interesting and worthwhile listening to. ¿What negative effect could striving to be that much better have?...

[numazu2]

I read the swatstika came from the Ayrians in Iraq. Perhaps Iraq received it from India??? I dont think anybody really knows, it is very very old and lets face it Hitler was a very very strange man that borrowed ideas from allsorts of places and then put his onw weird spin on it.

[Rosvosektori]

@ricky81187 I agree, but I still think religion is dumb. It took me 12 seconds to wrote that. Now I can watch this.

[shorinjisifu]

@luistifani fueron los nazis los que copiaron, con las aspas hacia la derecha

[555hansy]

shorinji kempo's cool :D

[Gieszkanne]

@ironmonkey2

Thats wrong, the Svastika(sanskrit!) is much older knowingly about 6000 years. It is much older than buddhism and it was used also by the Vedics, Celtics and old Germans. Thats just historical!

[PerMagOls]

@GottaBeSaid Ok, I should have written AMERICAN kenpo and JAPANESE kempo. I ment that the two arts have different origins, not that the names are so very much different. But hey, even the sun has spots :D I am just as knowlegdeable as any other keyboard warrior here on youtube (in other words I don't know an iota) :D

[GottaBeSaid]

@PerMagOls Kenpo & Kempo are the exact same Kanji! In Japanese "n" & "m" get pronounced the same a lot. The Arts (Japanese, American) are different but the names are not. So before telling people to "look it up" I suggest you do a bit of that yourself, pal!

[dimenthunter]

@ironmonkey2 true, but actually, the Romans took it first from the Hindus (not the Buddhists) and the nazis later got it from the Romans since it spread to the european parst through the roman empire and its expantion and was left in things like roman literrature that was used by germany later on.