方丈釋高參 曾師祖

     方丈釋高參(一八八六～一九六零年)，俗姓林，名亞鴻，一名飛天豹，福建惠安南埔鄉海樓村人。 十三歲 (一八九八年)離鄉投於閩名武師曹彪門下，習少林武功、輕功，曆三年四個月而學成，乃歸視家人，與其兄林亞興南渡新加坡，操搖船業三年。其兄不幸覆船遇難，他悲痛歸鄉，感身世之落寞而萌出家之念。光緒二十九年(一九零三年)，拜行亮上人為師，剃度於惠安清興寺，法號高參，繼赴莆田梅峰光孝寺，受戒於方丈微嘉禪師。梅峰寺乃福州怡山西禪寺直系叢林。高參從行亮上人習文，又拜慧精大師習武。慧精卓錫浙江南海普濟寺，為少林正宗四十八傳弟子，屬六祖傳下第四房，平生收徒只三人，而入室者僅高參一人而已。釋高參勤修苦練，終底於成，成為少林四十九傳人。     

    光緒三十三年(一九零七年)南渡印尼，卓錫三寶壟三寶洞1年，乃返榕垣怡山長慶寺。後發願雲遊，至民國兩年(一九一三年)，海內足跡已遍五嶽，海外芒鞋遍踏緬甸、印度、泰國、馬來西亞、新加坡、印尼，在印尼棉蘭日里尼禮鎮元宮住持二十一年。上人設帳授徒，則在五十歲之後，所收弟子5人：釋法禪、釋成雄、莊慶錦、莊順來、林金聚，皆少林五十傳在南洋弟子，後薪火再傳，已逾數万。民國三十七年受命怡山而來住持新加坡蓮山雙林寺之松輝法師，因應付為難，乃懇請高參移星住持。上人既至，應俗家弟子之請，乃於次年設班傳授少林正宗武術。

     一九五四年，高參創少華山國術健身社於新加坡。一九五七年，在檳榔嶼創少林健身社。一九五八年，續創少鎮山國術體育會，進而組建南洋少林國術總會，為各屬會領導中心。他的弟子分組少南山國術體育會，和少忠山、少鐘山、少和山、少怡山等健身學院約四十個單位，稱盛於新、馬。高參自一九四八年起住持雙林寺，革除積弊，越兩年，內外安定，即募捐重修，全部工程歷四年而成，福州怡山寺即晉升高參為大方丈。一九五五年，往檳城重建雙慶寺。 一九五八年，雙慶寺創建六十週年，高參主持傳戒大典。 高參於一九六零年五月十六日圓寂，終年七十五歲。

Abbot Shek Koh Sam ceng shi zu

     Abbot Shek Koh Sam (Shi Gao Shen) (1886 ~ 1960), his former name was Lin Ya Hong and nickname Fei Tian Bao (Flying Sky Leopard), a native of Hai Lou Village, Nan Pu Township, Hui An County, Fu Jian. At the age of 13 (1898), he left the village to work under the command of Cao Biao, a famous martial artist in the Fu Jian Province. He learned Shaolin martial arts and light skills and learned it completely after three years and four months. He later went to Singapore with his elder brother Lin Ya Xing. After 3 years, his brother unfortunately the ship capsized and died. He returned home in grief, feeling the loneliness of his life and his family. In 1903, Xing Liang became his teacher, shaved at Hui An Qing Xing Temple and got his Buddhist name as Shek Koh Sam. He also went to Pu Tian Mei Feng Guang Xiao Temple and was ordained by the abbot Wei Jia Zen Master. Mei Feng Temple is directly under Fu Zhou Yi Shan Xi Chan Temple. Shek Koh Sam studied Buddhist scripture from the Xing Liang master and practice martial arts from Master Hui Jing. Hui Jing of Pu Ji Temple, Nan Hai, Zhe Jiang, is a 48th disciple of Shaolin Orthodox, he belongs to the fourth Chamber of the Sixth Ancestor and have only accepted 3 disciples, and only Shek Koh Sam became an inner chamber disciple. He worked hard and eventually succeeded becoming Shaolin forty nine generation.     

     In 1907, he crossed Indonesia and spent one year at Semarang Cave and he returned to Chang Qing Temple in Yi Shan, Rong Yuan. In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), the went to Wu Yue Mountains and traveled toMyanmar, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. He after 50 years old does he started to received his disciples. He received five disciples: Shi Fa Chan, Shi Cheng Xiong, Zhuang Qing Jin, Zhuang Shun Lai, and Lin Jin Ju, which he passed his Shaolins skills to his Nanyang disciples. His number of students were more than a thousand. In the 37th year of the Republic of China, abbot Song Hui, who was appointed to be the abbot of Shuang Lin Temple in Lian Shan, Singapore.However due to some difficulties, he asked Shek Koh Sam to come to Singapore to become the “Zhu Shi” of the temple. When he have arrived in Shuang Lin Temple, he was requested by the people to teach, after following year he started teaching authentic Shaolin martial arts.

     In 1954, Shek Koh Sam created the Singapore Sao Hua San National Arts Arts Association. 1n 1957, he opened the Penang Sao Lim Athletic Association. In 1958 he created the Singapore Seow Tin San Athletic Association was established and then formed Nanyang Siao Lim National Ats Association to be the leading center of the number of affiliated association. His disciples opened their own school like Siow Lam San Wushu Association , Singapore Siau Tiong San Athletic Association,  Shao Zhong Shan Athletic Association, Shao He Shan Athletic Association, Shao Yi Shan Athletic Association and many more. Shek Koh Sam revamped the temple and started to fund raise for the rebuilding the temple, it took 4 years. The Fu  Zhou Yi Shan Temple promoted him to the rank of abbot. In 1955 he went to Penang to rebuilt Shuang Qing Temple. In 1958, the 60th anniversary of Shuang Qing Temple, he presided over the ceremony. Abbot Shek Koh Sam died in 1960 at the age of 75.