Yijinjing: the original workout

Image of The Muscle & Tendon change classic (Yijinjin 易筋經) painted by Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng

According to legend the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism called Bodhidharma wandered China sometime in the 5th Century. Also known as Tamo (達 摩) found himself at a, then unknown, monastery hidden by the small forest after which it was named; Shaolin Temple. It was there he developed the original workout, the Shaolin Yijinjing (少林易筋經).

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