Wikipedia's article on Shaolin Kung Fu, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on Shaolin Kung Fu, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard identifying facts and less reliable for evaluating the tradition's own legendary origin claims, which a dedicated historical source would need to settle. NotesWikipedia's article on Shaolin Kung Fu, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its description of two person forms as a transmission method ensuring exact technique from generation to generation, and for the 2003 Chinese recognition of the Japanese Shorinji Kempo organization's financial contribution to maintaining the historic Song Shan Shaolin Temple buildings, standard reference facts distinct from the atlas's existing citation on the tradition's deeper history.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Kung_Fu
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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