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China's famed Shaolin temple kick starts online store
Wed Jun 25, 8:20 AM ET SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and the star of many martial arts films, has set up an online store to flog its wares.
Named "Shaolin The Stage of Joy," a Web page has been set up by a unit of the temple on popular Chinese e-commerce site ÌÔ±¦Íø, offering a range of goods including shoes, tea, T-shirts and slippers.
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With China becoming more and more capitalist, it was just a matter of time before someone in China capitalized on the Shaolin name. While I think by association it cheapons Shaolin kung fu, I can't really blame anyone for taking advantage of an already world wide known name. People all over the world have been using the name Shaolin to promote themselves and thier product when there was absolutely no link. Guess its about time the temple took advantage of its' own name.
With China becoming more and more capitalist, it was just a matter of time before someone in China capitalized on the Shaolin name. While I think by association it cheapons Shaolin kung fu, I can't really blame anyone for taking advantage of an already world wide known name. People all over the world have been using the name Shaolin to promote themselves and thier product when there was absolutely no link. Guess its about time the temple took advantage of its' own name.
Now Lun you can't go and blame evil western capitalistic ideals on this one. Shaolin Temple has been nothing more then a tourist attraction ever since the last burning and ultimate reopening of the temple. Todays monks are allowed to eat meat and marry it's not the shaolin temple from the movies. It was reopened by the government to bolster tourism. It's not like over here the catholic church makes Jesus action figures just to make a buck.
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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD
Now Lun you can't go and blame evil western capitalistic ideals on this one. Shaolin Temple has been nothing more then a tourist attraction ever since the last burning and ultimate reopening of the temple. Todays monks are allowed to eat meat and marry it's not the shaolin temple from the movies. It was reopened by the government to bolster tourism. It's not like over here the catholic church makes Jesus action figures just to make a buck.
LOL I never said it was evil Its just the way free market works. Your absolutely right about today's Shaolin being a tourist trap. Of course if it was anything like the old Shaolin Temple the communist government would just shut it down again.
LOL I never said it was evil Its just the way free market works. Your absolutely right about today's Shaolin being a tourist trap. Of course if it was anything like the old Shaolin Temple the communist government would just shut it down again.
With out a doubt. Damn you Mao Ze Tung!!!!!!
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LOL I never said it was evil Its just the way free market works. Your absolutely right about today's Shaolin being a tourist trap. Of course if it was anything like the old Shaolin Temple the communist government would just shut it down again.
Or, turn it into a tourist trap.
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Originally Posted by Zaraki Kenpachi
"I cant go commercial, they love me in the streets."
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I personally have no problem with this. Its their name they can sully it how they want to.
was it Ludacris, T.I, or 50 Cent??/
no wait idk i heard that somewhere just dont remember.
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Heh, it has gone too commercial for some time........
he he knew you would enjoy hearing this one.......
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LOL I never said it was evil Its just the way free market works. Your absolutely right about today's Shaolin being a tourist trap. Of course if it was anything like the old Shaolin Temple the communist government would just shut it down again.
If it was anything like the "Old Shaolin temple", people would not even know its existence outside of Buddhism and the monks would still be practicing Ch'an/Ch'en and minding their own business instead of mining for business.
Has Shalin gone too commercial?
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Its just the way free market works. Your absolutely right about today's Shaolin being a tourist trap. Of course if it was anything like the old Shaolin Temple the communist government would just shut it down again.
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