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The Shaolin Wahnam Institute[1] was established by Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, 4th generation successor of the Southern Shaolin Monastery. His lineage traces right back to the Southern Shaolin Monastery through two patriarchs: Lai Chin Wah and Ho Fatt Nam. Ho Fatt Nam's teacher was Yang Fatt Khuen, whose teacher was Venerable Jiang Nan, the monk who escaped from the Southern Shaolin Monastery in Fujian Province. The legacy that Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit holds is over 150 years old.

Today, Wong Kiew Kit has over 2000 students world-wide through various branches of the Shaolin Wahnam Institute. Contrary to popular belief, the traditional Shaolin arts are no longer found in the modern-day Northern Shaolin Monastery. What is practised there is a form of Modern Wushu - the national sport of China. Certain forms of hard qigong are taught, again, differing from the soft, internal qigong that was taught in the former Shaolin Monasteries of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Shaolin arts, as taught at the Shaolin Wahnam Institute, purport to be of the soft, internal kind.

--Emcr8v 07:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)