San Te

When he leaves the monastery as punishment, he ends confronting and taking down the generals. Maybe it's just me but it felt a little wrong that he was involved in the attacks, since he was betraying the monks orders, going against Buddhist non-violence and his own hard-won spiritual and physical training. Don't get me wrong, the evil generals clearly got what was coming to them.

Were we supposed to ascertain that he was doing what the senior monks wanted anyway (per the ambiguous scene where the oldest monk said "they could use someone like him")? It almost seems parallel to the rise of communism in China that San Te decided what was right was to join the revolution, despite (what the movie seemed to say) the somewhat frustrating passivity taught by Buddhism (why did the monk need to be masters of kung-fu anyway?!)