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Buddha Zhen
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Tai Chi Magic Album in Mixing Stage

  2008 was the launch of BUDDHA KUNG FU schools in Los Angeles, California, by Buddha Zhen.
2009 is the relaunching of TAI CHI YOUTH nonprofit , founded 1996 by Richard Del Connor, Buddha Zhen.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Montrose, California – January 6, 2009 - TAI CHI MAGIC 1 album being mixed and then mastered at Shaolin Records.

Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang, founder of BuddhaKungFu.com and TaiChiYouth.org has released his first album, TAI CHI MAGIC 1, on ShaolinRecords.com playing Chinese Pipa and bamboo flutes.

Classically trained since childhood, Buddha Zhen has been able to play any instrument of every nationality he's had the opportunity to learn. In 1994, Buddha Zhen, pronounced, "Jen," obtained his first pipa. Already a guitarist since 1967, Buddha Zhen learned to play Chinese folk songs from cassettes he checked out from the Utah libraries.

A few years later Buddha Zhen studied pipa from a Chinese pipa Master from Hong Kong, China. This teacher was impressed with Buddha Zhen's pipa and flute music recordings despite his lack of Chinese traditional training in music. She took some of his music back to China to share with her teacher.

After a dream in 1976, Buddha Zhen, then known as, Richard Connor, decided to play the flute. After 20 years of playing folk rock flute similar to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, and becoming famous as, "The best flute player in Utah," Buddha Zhen enlarged his Chinese bamboo flute collection with all sizes and varieties. The very low flute on the song, "In The Pool Of Enlightenment," is a Japanese shakuhachi flute custom made for Buddha Zhen out of black bamboo.

The original album, TAI CHI MAGIC 1, was sold to his Kung Fu and Tai Chi students for a dozen years. These songs were also the background music for many performances, tournaments, exhibitions, and state fairs when Buddha Zhen and his students performed their Kung Fu and Tai Chi of his Shaolin Chi Mantis and Tai Chi Youth schools.

The song, "Tai Chi Magic," was composed by Buddha Zhen for performing and practicing the Yang Style Tai Chi Short Form still taught in his new Buddha Kung Fu programs in California. Each musical measure of four beats equal one complete breath. By coordinating their movements to the breathing, then coordinating their breathing to the music, students have been able to perform the traditional Tai Chi Form synchronized together in a lovely flowing dance that resembles an old MGM musical movie, in slow motion.

Some songs on TAI CHI MAGIC 1 are solo performances on flute and pipa. These songs are wonderful for meditation as they keep the mind moving, yet relaxed.

Buddha Zhen is creating a new musical genre with his Chinese folk music and American folk music styles. The song, "Road To The Mountaintop," includes drums performed by The Hippy Coyote of American Zen. For a couple other songs on the album, Coyote dismantled his drum set and spread them out like Chinese Lion Dance instruments to record them individually.

His students call it, "Chinese Folk Rock." We call it, "Tai Chi and Kung Fu Music." The record stores call it, "New Age," or "World Beat," music. Everyone calls this record, "Inspirational," but that could be confusing...

Richard Connor became a Kung Fu and Tai Chi Master in 1984 at age 30. In 1994 he was referred to as Master Zhen Shen-Lang, after being named by the Chen Family who had relocated from the base of Mt. Wudang where Tai Chi was created. After forming the nonprofit organization, Tai Chi Youth, Master Zhen moved back to California where he became known as Buddha Zhen and in 2008 founded the Buddha Kung Fu schools, the Shaolin Zen CyberTemple, and hosts the Zen Buddhist Podcast of Shaolin Zen, available at iTunes.

Take a Buddha home. The word, "buddha," means, "enlightened one," and Buddha Zhen has proven to be a light of hope, peace, health and happiness.

Be a Buddha too!

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“BZ_PR”
is the Press Release of Buddha Zhen, Zhen Shen-Lang, Spirit Wolf of Truth, founder of

Buddha Zhen:   Author, Kung Fu Master, Tai Chi Master, Zen Buddhist Master, Life Coach
http://www.BuddhaZhen.com

Buddha Zhen:   Composer, Flute, Bamboo Flutes, Shakuhachi, Pipa, Drums, Songwriting, and Poetry
http://www.TaiChiMagic.com

iTunes BUDDHA ZHEN albums
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=306705247

iTunes BUDDHA ZHEN ZEN Tai Chi Magic album
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=306705246&s=143441
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CD Cover
Buddha Zhen's 1st album

TAI CHI MAGIC 1

Subject of Photo:   Buddha Zhen at Gil Gal
Related Album:  Tai Chi Magic 1
Related Story:   Mormon Zen Gardens of Zhen

 

Book Cover
by Buddha Zhen

Buddha Kung Fu Student Manual

Subject of Photo:   Buddha Zhen's Monk Spade
Related Album:  Tai Chi Magic 1
Related Story:   Building A Shaolin Monk Spade

 

12' Banner at CV Park
Buddha Zhen's Working Person Kung Fu

12 Step 12 Week Kung Fu Bootcamp

Subject of Photo:   Banner at CV Park, CA
Related Book:  BKF Student Manual
Related Story:   Bootcamp Tear Sheets

 

About Shaolin Records
Shaolin Records was launched in 1984, releasing vinyl records and cassette tapes of Kung Fu music from Santa Monica, California. With its' independent record label spirit and Buddhist objectives, Shaolin Records hopes to 'enlighten and entertain.'

Media Contact:
Richard Del Connor
Producer, Shaolin Records

www.shaolinRECORDS.com

About Buddha Zhen
Zhen Shen-Lang "Truth Spirit-Wolf" or Spirit Wolf of Truth (The Chinese always put last name first.)
Shaolin Chi Mantis was founded in 1992 when Buddha Zhen decided that would be the name of his Kung Fu school. Although he had been teaching Tai Chi and Kung Fu since 1984, it was without a school name. The name Shaolin Chi Mantis represents the three Kung Fu styles mastered by Buddha Zhen at the Tai Mantis Federation school in Redondo Beach from 1982 to 1984. In 1996 Master Zhen created the Tai Chi Youth nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity organization for troubled youth. Buddha Zhen founded the Buddha Kung Fu school in 2008 which includes the Buddha Tai Chi, Shaolin Kids , and 12 Step 12 Week Kung Fu Bootcamp programs.

Media Contact:
Buddha Zhen

www.BuddhaZhen.com

  

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