Example sentences for: shaolin

How can you use “shaolin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Forest of Stupas (Shaolin Talin) is of historic note.

  • A gondola now whisks visitors to the top, where hiking trails are abundant and views of the Shaolin complex and the vast desert plains of Henan are impressive.

  • The forest of 227 stupas at Shaolin covers over 1,000 years of Buddhist funerals, beginning with that of a Tang Dynasty abbot who was buried here in the year 746.

  • In 625 it was expanded by a Tang Dynasty emperor in gratitude for wartime services rendered by the Shaolin monks, who used their fighting skills to send off some usurpers.

  • The branch of Buddhism known as Chan (“Zen” in Japan and the West) also looks to Shaolin as its source.


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