Battle monk

Kampfmönch denotes in German not very precisely different forms and traditions of armed and unarmed Buddhist or Daoist monks :

• the fighting monks of the Shaolin Buddhist monastery in China ;
• the monks of the Taoist monasteries in the Wudang Mountains in China who practice internal martial arts ;
• the Japanese Sōhei ;
• the Japanese Yamabushi .

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.