Shaolin: Temple of Zen The Woodbury Art Museum will provide entrance to the notoriously secretive world of the Shaolin warrior monks in it's exhibit "Shaolin: Temple of Zen" beginning August 14. Over the past eight years, photographer Justin Guariglia has slowly but surely won the trust of the monks of the Shaolin Temple, a unique Chinese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu referred to as the "vehicle of Zen." With the blessings of the main abbot, Shi Yong Xin, Guariglia has earned the full collaboration of the monks to create an astonishing, empathic record of the Shaolin art forms and the individuals who consider themselves the keepers of these traditions. It is the first time the monks have allowed such extensive documentation of these masters and their centuries-old art forms from Buddhist mudras to classical kung fu, in their original setting, a 1,500 year old Buddhist temple. The Woodbury Art Museum is located on the second floor between Nordstrom and the Gap. Admission if free. For more information please call (801) 863-6200 | 
