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2. Baduanjin qigong - Wikipedia

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   The Baduanjin qigong (八段錦) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise. [1] Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, Eight-Section Brocade, Eight Silken Movements or Eight Silk Weaving, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the ...

3. List of mudras (dance) - Wikipedia

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   In Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of India performed by Lord Nataraja, approximately 48 root mudras (hand or finger gestures) are used to clearly communicate specific ideas, events, actions, or creatures in which 28 require only one hand, and are classified as `Asamyuta Hasta', along with 23 other primary mudras which require both hands and are classified as 'Samyuta Hasta'; these 51 are ...

4. Category:Hindu new religious movements - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Pages in category "Hindu new religious movements"

5. Karana (dance) - Wikipedia

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   Some other Bharatanatyam gurus, such as Adyar Lakshman (Kalakshetra school), as well as the Kuchipudi gurus Vempati Chinna Satyam and C.R.Acharya have also attempted to reconstruct all the 108 karanas, which were often significantly different from Padma Subrahmanyam's interpretations so much so that even on the chari (leg movement) level there ...

6. Qigong - Wikipedia

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   Qigong is commonly classified into two foundational categories: 1) dynamic or active qigong (dong gong), with slow flowing movement; and 2) meditative or passive qigong (jing gong), with still positions and inner movement of the breath.

7. Luohanquan - Wikipedia

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   Luohanquan (simplified Chinese: 罗汉拳; traditional Chinese: 羅漢拳; pinyin: Luóhànquán), which means "Arhat fist", is a general name for all the styles of Chinese martial arts that are named after the Arhats, the holy Buddhist figures.

8. Sant Mat - Wikipedia

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   Sant Mat was a spiritual movement on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th–17th centuries CE.The name literally means "teachings of sants", i.e. mystic Hindu saints. Through association and seeking truth by following sants and their teachings, a movement was for

9. History of qigong - Wikipedia

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   Scientists, free from the repression of the Cultural Revolution, were able to seek new challenges. Among the new subjects of inquiry, they studied the effects of qigong and provided scientific foundations for qigong practice. In 1979, Gu Hansen of the Shanghai Institute of Atomic Research first reported on the external measurement of qi. [26]