The influence of Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and Confucianism on the theory and practice of East Asian martial arts

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Anton Sukhoverkhov ◽  
A. A. Klimenko ◽  
A. S. Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Chan Buddhism ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

scholarly journals Can We Learn Martial Arts Through Books? The Revival of Korean Fight Books Through Transmission and Reconstruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bok Kyu Choi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
Asian Martial Arts ◽  
And Training

Fight books can be defined as texts specialising in the theories of martial arts and the instruction  of techniques (for future generations) based on actual experience of real fighting and training. According to this definition, today's efforts to reconstruct classical martial arts based upon historic fight books, in both East and West, are attempts to resurrect something extinct. Traditional East Asian martial artists, however, often argue that there are substantial limits in the reconstruction process of, for example, medieval European martial arts given the discontinuity of embodied knowledge, especially when compared to the Asian arts’ presumed strong transmission from generation to generation without interruption. Both seem quite different, but they share the epistemological assumption that authentic archetypes of martial arts did exist at some point in the past and believe it possible to transmit or reconstruct them in the present. This paper examines the limitations to the hypothesis of the existence of martial arts archetypes by examining the discourse surrounding the inherited tradition of the Muyedobotongji in Korea. The authors of the Muyedobotongji successfully synthesised and standardised contemporary East Asian martial arts and shared that knowledge from the perspective of Joseon[1] in the late eighteenth century. Now, after 200 years, we must do our part to breathe new life into it for this era.

The Martial Arts and Buddhist Philosophy

2013 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Graham Priest
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

My topic concerns the martial arts – or at least the East Asian martial arts, such as karatedo, taekwondo, kendo, wushu. To what extent what I have to say applies to other martial arts, such as boxing, silat, capoeira, I leave as an open question. I will illustrate much of what I have to say with reference to karatedo, since that is the art with which I am most familiar; but I am sure that matters are much the same with other East Asian martial arts.

The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brown ◽  
George Jennings ◽  
Aspasia Leledaki
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

scholarly journals East Asian ‘Econophoria’ in Theory and Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Brendan Howe
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Low Tension

‘Econophoria’ is the hope that the solution of all governance challenges, whether international or domestic, can be sought through economic growth and development. It is prevalent in the East Asian region, where tremendous economic development success stories have gone hand-in-hand with lengthy periods without interstate war. This paper explores the theoretical underpinnings and antecedents for econophoria, and how it has manifest in practice in East Asia. It also raises, however, a number of questions which challenge the underlying assumptions of peace though trade and economic growth paradigms in East Asia. How does the skewed wealth distribution that is associated with macro-economic growth affect the internal stability and peace of the societies in East Asia? Does this have an impact on the propensity of the governments to contain the conflicts they have with their neighbours at a level of low tension? Is the pursuit of economic growth prior to, or at the expense of, human rights and the wellbeing of the most vulnerable sustainable in the contemporary international operating environment?

scholarly journals Psychophysical Approaches and Practices in India: Embodying Processes and States of ‘Being–Doing’

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Zarrilli
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
Asian Martial Arts ◽  
Yoga Practitioners

This essay articulates a South Asian understanding of embodied psychophysical practices and processes with a specific focus on Kerala, India. In addition to consulting relevant Indian texts and contemporary scholarly accounts, it is based upon extensive ethnographic research and practice conducted with actors, dancers, yoga practitioners, and martial artists in Kerala between 1976 and 2003. During 2003 the author conducted extensive interviews with kutiyattam and kathakali actors about how they understand, talk about, and teach acting within their lineages. Phillip Zarrilli is Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group, and is internationally known for training actors in psychophysical processes using Asian martial arts and yoga. He lived in Kerala, India, for seven years between 1976 and 1989 while training in kalarippayattu and kathakali dance-drama. His books include Psychophysical Acting: an Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski, Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play, and When the Body Becomes All Eyes. He is Professor of Performance Practice at Exeter University.

Conceptual Foundations

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Oxford English Dictionary ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 starts by interrogating the Oxford English Dictionary’s treatment of the term ‘martial arts’ as a way to broach the book’s concerns. Today, the idea that the term ‘martial arts’ is associated with practices that are ‘mainly of East Asian origin’ is contentious. But this chapter sets out how and why these connotations emerged. It goes on to deepen the case for the relationship between history and analysis within this work, to set out the core argument about the cultural power of media representation, and to lay out the ways in which its ensuing chapters will support the argument that ‘martial arts’ is a recently invented, variegated, and variable ‘discursive entity’.

A "Way" for Actors: Asian Martial Arts

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Richard Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Asian Martial Arts
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