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In 1916 Gichin Funakoshi Introduced Karate into Japan from Okinawa.
Karate means Empty Hand. Karate is thought to have
been started in India by a Buddhist priest called Bhodidarma, Who
wished to take Zen (a sect of Buddhism) to the Chinese. The Buddhist
priests learnt how to fight to defend themselves from bandits and
wild animals as they wandered.
In about AD 500, Bhodidarma reached the court of Emperor Wu at Chein-K'ang
in China, where he was warmly received. He left the courts, eventually
reaching the Henan Province and into seclusion in the Shaolin temple
(shorin in Japanese) to teach Zen. He also taught his system of
unarmed combat called Shorin Kempo.
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