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Thirteen staffs
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Buddhist texts remember the monk Sengchou for his staff and his empty hands.
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In 621 monks of Shaolin captured Wang Renze, who had seized the temple's land.
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So they helped the prince Li Shimin. A stele from 728 keeps his letter and thirteen names.
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A saying about weapons: the staff is the ancestor of a hundred weapons.
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In 1928 a warlord's soldiers burned the temple. In the 1980s it was rebuilt.
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