Grand Master Chan Tin Sang-(陳天生)
(1924-1993)
Inheritor and preserver of the Ch'an Dao (禪道) Hakka (禪道) Lineage
Guidance From Grand Master Chan Tin Sang (click for article).
Master Chan Tin Sang trained as a traditional doctor of Chinese medicine, at a time when doctors took one or two students, and spent a lifetime transmitting their medical knowledge to those students. Medicine, in the old days, was conveyed very much like gungfu (功夫-literally ‘skill time’, or ‘time for hard work’). With learning being a slow maturing process, designed to thoroughly train the student from the inside out. This mastery is designed to produce good human beings, and along the way, the aspiring student gains a working knowledge of the chosen art. There is no rush for this process, and time is viewed as something of a blessing in disguise.
The philosophical premise under-pinning the Ch’an Dao (禪道) approach, is that the essence of the ‘mind’, serves as the essence of the body and all experience. Without a ‘mind’, there can be no experience. The training has two distinct strands, the study of the physical body within the practice of martial culture, and through this familiarisation with the ‘inner’ (内-nei) and ‘outer’ (外-wai) changes that occur during many years of training, there is a penetration of the everyday chaotic surface mind, to its peaceful essence. Both of these states become intrinsically entwined.
Master Chan fought against the Imperial Japanese army during WWII, following their invasion of the New Territories, as part of the Hakka resistance. All his expertise and skill were required to survive. He left the Chan ancestral village (Heurng Jou Chin, or 'Banana Village') in Sai Kung, New Territories, Hong Kong, and came to England with his family in 1956. It is only within recent years that Hakka gungfu styles have been taught outside of the direct family and name clan.
Mastery is to achieve a peaceful strength that can dissolve or negate unjust or unwanted negative energy. A Lineage is an expression of a perceived pathway of communication, linking the past to the present. It serves to remind us of those who have gone before, and preserved their art so that we might benefit from its practice.
Martial Lineage
Grand Master Chan Yan Fat – (exact dates unknown, style passed on from his father.)
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Master Chan Tin Sang – (1924-1993, son of Chan Yan Fat)
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Sifu Adrian Chan-Wyles
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Long Term Students Worthy Of Note:
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Mr Neil Webster Mr Nick Bishop
(Full Instructor 7.2.08) (Full Instructor 3.3.11)
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Mr Nick Dowswell
(Assistant Instructor)
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Mr James O'reily
(Good Student)
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Mr Josh Hill
(Good Student)
Ch'an Buddhist Lineage
Master Xu Yun (1840-1959)
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Charles Luk (Upasaka Lu Kuan Yu) 1898-1978.
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Richard Hunn (Upasaka Wen Shu ) 1949-2006.
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Adrian Chan-Wyles 1967 -.
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