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Bodhidharma


00:01:52 1 Biography
00:02:01 1.1 Principal sources
00:03:09 1.1.1 iThe Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang/i
00:04:22 1.1.2 Tánlín – preface to the Two Entrances and Four Acts
00:05:35 1.1.3 "Chronicle of the iLaṅkāvatāra/i Masters"
00:06:11 1.1.4 "Further Biographies of Eminent Monks"
00:08:19 1.2 Later accounts
00:08:27 1.2.1 iAnthology of the Patriarchal Hall/i
00:10:23 1.2.2 Dàoyuán – Transmission of the Lamp
00:11:01 1.3 Popular traditions
00:11:43 2 Legends about Bodhidharma
00:12:01 2.1 Encounter with Emperor Xiāo Yǎn 蕭衍
00:12:28 2.2 Nine years of wall-gazing
00:13:43 2.3 Huike cuts off his arm
00:14:05 2.4 Transmission
00:14:14 2.4.1 Skin, flesh, bone, marrow
00:14:51 2.5 Bodhidharma at Shaolin
00:15:37 2.6 Travels in Southeast Asia
00:16:20 2.7 Appearance after his death
00:17:27 3 Practice and teaching
00:17:42 3.1 Pointing directly to one's mind
00:18:14 3.2 Wall-gazing
00:19:47 3.3 The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
00:23:00 4 Lineage
00:23:09 4.1 Construction of lineages
00:24:40 4.2 Six patriarchs
00:25:01 4.3 Continuous lineage from Gautama Buddha
00:25:48 5 Modern scholarship
00:26:06 5.1 Biography as a hagiographic process
00:27:36 5.2 Origins and place of birth
00:29:42 5.3 Caste
00:30:12 5.4 Name
00:31:00 5.5 Abode in China
00:31:35 5.6 Shaolin boxing
00:32:58 6 Works attributed to Bodhidharma
00:33:36 7 See also



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Bodhidharma   was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin kungfu. In Japan, he is known as Daruma.
Little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is extant, and subsequent accounts became layered with legend and unreliable details.According to the principal Chinese sources, Bodhidharma came from the Western Regions, which refers to Central Asia but may also include the Indian subcontinent, and was either a "Persian Central Asian" or a "South Indian [...] the third son of a great Indian king."
Throughout Buddhist art, Bodhidharma is depicted as an ill-tempered, profusely-bearded, wide-eyed non-Chinese person. He is referred as "The Blue-Eyed Barbarian" (Chinese: 碧眼胡; pinyin: Bìyǎnhú) in Chan texts.Aside from the Chinese accounts, several popular traditions also exist regarding Bodhidharma's origins.The accounts also differ on the date of his arrival, with one early account claiming that he arrived during the Liu Song dynasty (420–479) and later accounts dating his arrival to the Liang dynasty (502–557). Bodhidharma was primarily active in the territory of the Northern Wei (386-634). Modern scholarship dates him to about the early 5th century.Bodhidharma's teachings and practice centered on meditation and the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. The Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall (952) identifies Bodhidharma as the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism in an uninterrupted line that extends all the way back to the Gautama Buddha himself.