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  2. Shotokan - Wikipedia

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    Gichin Funakoshi laid out the Twenty Precepts of Karate [7] (or Niju kun [8]), which form the foundations of the art, before some of his students established the Japan Karate Association (JKA). Within these twenty principles, based heavily on bushido and Zen , lies the philosophy of Shotokan.

  3. Five Strengths - Wikipedia

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    In SN 48.43, the Buddha declares that the five strengths are the five spiritual faculties and vice versa. He uses the metaphor of a stream passing by a mid-stream island; the island creates two streams, but the streams can also be seen as one and the same. [ 4 ]

  4. Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma - Wikipedia

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    The first turning is traditionally said to have taken place at Deer Park in Sarnath near Varanasi in northern India.It consisted of the teaching of the four noble truths, dependent arising, the five aggregates, the sense fields, not-self, the thirty seven aids to awakening and all the basic Buddhist teachings common to all Buddhist traditions and found in the various Sutrapitaka and Vinaya ...

  5. Wadō-ryū - Wikipedia

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    Wadō-ryū (和道流) is one of the four major karate styles [d] and was founded by Hironori Ōtsuka (1892–1982). [6] [7] Ōtsuka was a Menkyo Kaiden licensed Shindō Yōshin-ryū practitioner of Tatsusaburo Nakayama and a student of Yōshin-ryū prior to meeting the Okinawan karate master Gichin Funakoshi.

  6. Budokan karate - Wikipedia

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    The styles of karate practiced by the officer were Keishinkan and Shotokan. Chew was impressed and asked for and got tuition. Chew was impressed and asked for and got tuition. For more than 2 years afterwards, he and the officer trained together in karate, jujitsu, judo and weight lifting until the Japanese Army officer left for Okinawa in 1945.

  7. Kyokushin - Wikipedia

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    Kyokushin Karate has served as the basis for the Kyokugenryu Karate, a fictional martial art from SNK Playmore's Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, and King of Fighters series. Kyokugenryu (lit. "the extreme style") and Kyokushin are similar sounding names, and the family patriarch Takuma Sakazaki is modelled after Kyokusin founder Mas Oyama.

  8. Buddhist paths to liberation - Wikipedia

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    Another formula is anupubbikathā, "graduated talk, in which the Buddha talks on generosity , virtue , heaven , danger of sensual pleasure (kāmānaṃ ādīnava) [note 3] and renunciation . When the listener is prepared by these topics, the Buddha then delivers "the teaching special to the Buddhas," [ 16 ] the Four Noble Truths ( cattāri ...

  9. Shūkōkai - Wikipedia

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    Chōjirō Tani began teaching the Karate style Shūkōkai (meaning the way for all) [2] at a dojo in Kobe, Japan, in 1946. Shūkōkai was designed around the study of body mechanics, is very fast due to its relatively high stance aiding mobility, [ 3 ] and is known for the double hip twist , which maximises the force of its strikes; making it ...