{"id":16,"date":"2021-04-12T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:01:51","slug":"18-lohan-hands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/exercises\/18-lohan-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Lohan Hands Qigong Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Shaolin 18 Lohan Hands is a set of qigong exercises attributed to the Very Venerable Bodhidharma. Legend has it that he found the monks of the Shaolin Temple too weak for the rigours of spiritual cultivation and so taught them a set of qigong exercises that became known as the 18 Lohan Hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>18<\/strong> &#8211; Because there are 18 qigong exercises in the set<\/li><li><strong>Lohan<\/strong> &#8211; followers of the Buddha Siddhartha Guatama (18 of which were specially honoured when Buddhism spread from India to China)<\/li><li><strong>Hands<\/strong> &#8211; here in the Chinese language refers to techniques or patterns.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These qigong exercises enabled the monks to develop strong healthy bodies and minds and allowed them to progress more successfully with their spiritual cultivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shaolin 18 Lohan Hands is a set of qigong exercises attributed to the Very Venerable Bodhidharma. Legend has it that he found the monks of the Shaolin Temple too weak for the rigours of spiritual cultivation and so taught them a set of qigong exercises that became known as the 18 Lohan Hands. 18 &#8230; <a title=\"18 Lohan Hands Qigong Set\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/exercises\/18-lohan-hands\/\" aria-label=\"More on 18 Lohan Hands Qigong Set\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/691"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigong15.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}