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Daai Yuk () was a
Chan Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) *Chan Caldwel ...
Buddhist Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...
master who is credited with teaching Southern
Dragon Kung Fu The movements of the Southern Dragon style (traditional name Lung Ying) () of Shaolin Boxing are based on the mythical Chinese dragon. The Dragon style is an imitative-style that was developed based on the imagined characteristics of the mythic ...
, or Lung Ying 龍形拳, to
Lam Yiu Gwai Lam Yiu-gwai 林耀桂 (1877-1966) was the master responsible for the dissemination of Dragon Kung Fu. Lam was born in 1877 in Huìyáng () County in the History of the administrative divisions of China#Prefecture level, prefecture of Huizhou i ...
. He was a monk at
Wa Sau Toi Huashoutai or commonly known in its Cantonese name Wa Sau Toi () was a Buddhist monastery on the sacred mountain Luofushan. It was destroyed in early 20th century. It is located in Boluo County, Huizhou, Guangdong, China. History The Chan ( ...
, one of the many temples on the sacred mountain
Luofushan Mount Luofu () is a sacred Taoist mountain situated on the north bank of the Dongjiang in the northwest of Boluo County, Huizhou in Guangdong Province, China. It covers 250 kilometers. Among the many temples on Mt. Luofu is Wa Sau Toi, which is ...
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