Tibetan White Crane

rdf:langString Tibetan White Crane

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rdf:langString Tibetan White Crane

rdf:langString 西藏白鶴拳

rdf:langString Bai He Pai

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rdf:langString Pak Hok Pai ,

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rdf:langString Lion's Roar

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rdf:langString Adatuo , also known as the Dai Dat Lama

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rdf:langString sai1 zong6 baak6 hok6 kyun4

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rdf:langString Xīzàng Báihèquán

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rdf:langString Tibetan White Crane (Chinese: 西藏白鶴拳, "Tibetan White Crane Fist"), also known in Cantonese as Bak Hok Pai (白鶴派, "White Crane Style"), is a Chinese martial art with origins in 15th-century Tibetan culture that has developed deep roots in southern China. Tibetan White Crane became so established in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau by the twentieth century that it was accepted as a local martial art in that region. From there it has spread around the world. Lama Pai (喇嘛派) and Hop Ga Kuen (俠家拳) are closely related branches of the same lineage descending from the same original art, which the founder called Lion's Roar (獅子吼). This style is not related to Fujian White Crane (福建白鶴拳), which developed independently in Fujian Province within the Southern Shaolin Five Animals tradition. Tibetan White Crane played an important role at a key pivot point in Chinese and worldwide popular culture, when a 1954 charity match between a master of that art and a master of t'ai chi ch'uan attracted massive attendance and avid media coverage, generated broad acceptance and celebration of Chinese martial arts, and resulted in new waves of wuxia (martial hero) literature and kung-fu film that continue to this day.

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