少林流 (shōrinryū) is the name of a school of Okinawan karate, written with the characters of China's Shaolin temple, 少林寺. It is composed of 少林 (read shōrin), the Shaolin temple, and 流 (read ryū), a school: a line of teaching handed down. JMdict gives it as an Okinawa school of karate. Several schools share the sound or come close to it: Chibana Chōshin's school writes it 小林流, which is sometimes read kobayashi-ryū to tell the two apart.
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