Origin
The manual's origin is sketchy, as opposed to that of its counterpart Nine Yin Manual. Rumours say that the book was written by the Shaolin Sect's founder Bodhidharma, but these claims have never been verified. The Nine Yang Manual is also never published as a single book, in contrast to the Nine Yin Manual, which comes in two volumes. The contents of the Nine Yang Manual are written between the lines of the Lanvakatara Sutra, one of the many various Buddhist scriptures in the Shaolin library.
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