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Glossary
- Pai da (pai ta)
- A Shaolin method of developing the ability to take blows with impunity. The method involves hitting the body with progressively harder objects, such as cloth sacks full of beans, stones, marbles, iron pellets or filings, and rods made of bamboo, wood, or iron.
- Pao chuan (pao quan)
- Pounding Fist. One of the five basic techniques of hsing-i chuan.
- Penchat/Silat
- Indonesian martial arts that have a wide variety of specific styles, mostly external and external/internal.
- Peng (p’eng)
- Ward Off or rising energy of internal martial arts.
- Peng jin (peng jing, peng chin)
- Expansive energy. The rising, pushing outwards internal power that forms the basis of the yang chi aspect of internal martial arts.
- Pi chuan (pi quan)
- Chopping or Splitting Fist. One of the five basic techniques of hsing-i chuan.
- Post-birth (hou tien)
- That which happens to a person after leaving the womb. Talents, skills, or accomplishments not inherent but acquired after birth.
- Post-birth ba gua
- The linear as opposed to Circle-Walking practice of ba gua chang.
- Post-birth chi
- The chi a human gets by eating, drinking, sleeping, breathing, and exercising.
- Posture
- The last static position that ends a martial art technique or chi gung movement. Also, a whole movement for which a specific martial art or chi gung technique is named.
- Pre-birth (hsien tien)
- Whatever has happened to a human between conception and the time of birth.
- Pre-birth ba gua
- The Circle-Walking practice of ba gua whose purpose is to develop pre-birth chi in the same manner as it was done in Taoist monasteries.
- Pre-birth chi
- The energy an individual absorbs from its mother and the cosmos while in the womb. The quantity and quality of this energy basically determines the genetic strength or weakness an individual has for life. Normally, the amount of this chi is fixed for life at birth. However, through certain pre-birth chi cultivation practices, an adult is again able to store this chi, thus potentially overcoming genetic limitations.
- Push Hands
Also known as tui shou. The continuous two-person hand-touching practice of the internal martial art of tai chi chuan, which forms the bridge between the form movements of tai chi and its self-defense techniques.
