# Did Kung Fu originate from Indian martial arts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kung Fu Forum\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756 "2002-03-28T01:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lazybones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@lazybones](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/lazybones)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/1 "2002-03-28T01:42:51Z")
Hi, This will probably seem like a stupid question to most people but as I failed to find an answer after doing a search on this forum, here goes : I’ve read in a few places that Kung Fu originated from the Indian monk Tamo/Bodhidharma. Apparently he visited a buddhist temple and upon seeing that the monks were in poor physical condition, he taught them some “exercises” to strengthen their bodies. These exercises eventually evolved to become Kung Fu as we know it today. What I’d like to know is, were these exercises a;ready a form of Indian martial arts or were they non martial exercises that were transformed by the chinese over the years to become Kung Fu. ---
**Author:** ![prana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/prana/32/101_2.png) [@prana](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/prana)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/2 "2002-03-28T01:44:46Z")
I dunno about originated, but I know it definitely blended 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joedoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joedoe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/joedoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/3 "2002-03-28T02:00:48Z")
Fromw hat I understand, what he taught the monks was more like yoga than martial arts. ---
**Author:** ![sunstylin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@sunstylin](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/sunstylin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/4 "2002-03-28T02:05:51Z")
interesting post Well yes to some degree. They were taught yoga to help with meditation, but I have heard the theory about a temple being raided by bandits so they began training with every day tools on national geographic! ---
**Author:** ![prana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/prana/32/101_2.png) [@prana](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/prana)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/5 "2002-03-28T02:08:19Z")
> Originally posted by joedoe > Fromw hat I understand, what he taught the monks was more like yoga than martial arts. Yea it is some exercises that focusses on training the tendons to keep them used and conditioned. But the indians had their form of MA too, but I am not sure if Damo actually passed those unto the Silum monks… ---
**Author:** ![red\_fists](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/red_fists/32/251_2.png) [@red\_fists](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/red_fists)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/6 "2002-03-28T02:18:50Z")
Maybe not Damo himself. But there were tradings happening between the different areas and those caravans were usually protected by fighters. And most prolly those Indian fighters shared some knowledge with the local Chinese Fighters. So I would say influenced and some techniques originated in the Indian Arts. ---
**Author:** ![Yajirobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f1d935/32.png) [@Yajirobe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Yajirobe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/7 "2002-03-28T02:23:17Z")
from all the books i’ve read kung fu came from Korea and china perfected it. nothing i read said it originated from india. ---
**Author:** ![prana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/prana/32/101_2.png) [@prana](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/prana)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/8 "2002-03-28T02:32:35Z")
> Originally posted by Yajirobe > from all the books i’ve read kung fu came from Korea WOW! That is the first 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![old\_jong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/old_jong/32/86_2.png) [@old\_jong](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/old_jong)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/9 "2002-03-28T02:42:14Z")
No!..Here’s the story! A few thousand years ago, an aborigenal indian from a region of South-America known today as Brazil!..Went fishing!..He was caught in a big storm and drifted in his little boat till he found himself on the coast of China!..To make a short story, he went to a temple,challenged everybody and helped the monks in creating Kung Fu!.. ---
**Author:** ![yenhoi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/yenhoi/32/185_2.png) [@yenhoi](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/yenhoi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/10 "2002-03-28T02:48:30Z")
jong will die. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/sharky/32/15_2.png) [@Sharky](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/11 "2002-03-28T02:52:02Z")
Chicken Tikka Masala originated in Britain. It is now the national dish. A bangaladeshi [sp] chef make some tikka and rice for some english customers. They said it was too dry and they wanted sauce. All he had lyring around was chicken soup. So he stuck that in there (creamy, you see). Chicken Tikka Masala was born. It also catered for the fact that English people are wussys when it comes to spices, and is very mild indeed. Apparently. ---
**Author:** ![red\_fists](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/red_fists/32/251_2.png) [@red\_fists](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/red_fists)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/12 "2002-03-28T02:53:13Z")
I always though that Kung Fu evolved from Chinese Nin-Jutsu. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/sharky/32/15_2.png) [@Sharky](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/13 "2002-03-28T02:57:12Z")
Was this before or after Lee taught Yip Man? (sorry rogue) ---
**Author:** ![Yajirobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f1d935/32.png) [@Yajirobe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Yajirobe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/14 "2002-03-28T03:03:23Z")
“WOW! That is the first” heh yeah actually i mostly read reference books about C++ which \*\*\*\*es me off because they don’t explain what to add in the autoexec.bat files.. woops went off topic to vent RAGE OF AUTOEXEC.BAT…sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Merryprankster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/merryprankster/32/102_2.png) [@Merryprankster](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Merryprankster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/15 "2002-03-28T03:09:38Z")
All Kung Fu is just watered down [Kalari Payattu](http://www.kalarippayat.com) ---
**Author:** ![old\_jong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/old_jong/32/86_2.png) [@old\_jong](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/old_jong)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/16 "2002-03-28T03:16:12Z")
Hey Merry! I knew you would be there with your kalari! Admire the economy of [motion!](http://www.kalarippayat.com/images/kalari3.gif) ---
**Author:** ![red\_fists](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/red_fists/32/251_2.png) [@red\_fists](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/red_fists)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/17 "2002-03-28T03:16:40Z")
> Originally posted by Yajirobe > [B]“WOW! That is the first” heh yeah actually i mostly read reference books about C++ which \*\*\*\*es me off because they don’t explain what to add in the autoexec.bat files.. woops went off topic to vent RAGE OF AUTOEXEC.BAT…sorry. [/B] What about the AUTOEXEC.BAT file?? It pretty much become useless under WIN-95. If you got a question PM me, I still got an old DOS 3.3/Win3.1 Machine at home and play with that for nostalgic reasons. Ohh, the Days when there was only “edlin”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yajirobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f1d935/32.png) [@Yajirobe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Yajirobe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/18 "2002-03-28T03:20:01Z")
heh far from useless if you want to add the DJGPP C++ compiler to the autoexec.bat files. ---
**Author:** ![joedoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joedoe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/joedoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/19 "2002-03-28T03:25:38Z")
> Originally posted by Yajirobe > from all the books i’ve read kung fu came from Korea and china perfected it. nothing i read said it originated from india. Yeah, yeah. And Chung Moo Do is the father of all Korean arts, so all martial arts are derived from Chung Moo Do. And the moon is made of green cheese 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![red\_fists](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/red_fists/32/251_2.png) [@red\_fists](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/red_fists)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756/20 "2002-03-28T03:25:38Z")
Hehe. You using “djgpp C++”, that one is designed for the old 80386 (MS-DOS 3.3). In that case your prob might be in the config.sys rather than the autoexec.bat. Most prolly memory settings (Himem, files, Buffers,etc.) Will have a look at it and get back to you. What OS you on?? Also check: [DJGPP](http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/) [Next page](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/did-kung-fu-originate-from-indian-martial-arts/10756.md?page=2)