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Boddhidarma is the first patriarch of the chan sect known also as zen. He is also the 28 patriarch in the tradition of the Buddha Gautama. Boddhidharma was his Indian name. The Chinese know him as Da Mo or Ta Mo. In Japan they name him Bodai Daruma or Daruma... cont. below

Bodhidharma
Zen Patriarch

Boddhidarma is the first patriarch of the chan sect known also as zen. He is also the 28 patriarch in the tradition of the Buddha Gautama. Boddhidharma was his Indian name. The Chinese know him as Da Mo or Ta Mo. In Japan they name him Bodai Daruma or Daruma.

Bodhidharma was born in Kanchi in the Southern Indian kingdom of Pallava between 440 and 470. His spiritual instructor was the monk Prajnatara. He told him to travel to China and he came there by ship somewhere between 475 to 520. Legend has it that he spent nine years in meditation, where he used to sit facing the rock wall of a cave that's about a mile from the Shaolin Temple. Thus he won the title "the wall-gazing brahmin".

"The buddha in the mind is like a fragrance in a tree. The buddha comes from a mind free of suffering, just as a fragrance comes from a tree free of decay. There's no fragrance without a tree and no buddha without the mind. If there's a fragrance without a tree it's a different fragrance. If there's a buddha without your mind, it's a different buddha."
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