It’s a long way from the Shaolin monk of popular imagination. That monk breaks stone with his palm and stands unharmed beneath blows. He drives a finger through a board, scales walls, leaps impossibly high and shrugs off spears. Much of what the world believes about Shaolin’s extraordinary skills comes from a list: the Seventy-Two Arts of Shaolin. In various forms, the list has circulated for about a century, and it’s the closest thing kung fu has to an official inventory of superpowers. Iron Head. Iron Shirt. Golden Bell. Diamond Finger. One-Finger Zen. Light Body. Flying to the Ridge and Walking on Walls. And, with the lovely bluntness only an old martial title can achieve, an art whose name translates roughly as Neither Spear Nor Broadsword Can Wound.