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Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma, woodblockprint byYoshitoshi, 1887.

Bodhidharma was aBuddhistmonkwho lived during the 5th/6th century AD. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter

ofCh'an(Sanskrit:Dhyna,Japanese:Zen) toChina, and regarded as the first Chinesepatriarch. According to Chinese legend,

he also began the physical training of theShaolinmonks that led to the creation ofShaolinquan.

Little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is extant, and subsequent accounts became layered with

legend.[1]

There are three principal sources for Bodhidharma's biography[2]: Yng Xunzh's (Yang Hsan-chih) The Record of

the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang(547), Tnln's preface to the Two Entrances and Four Acts(6th century CE), and

Doxun's (Tao-hsuan) Further Biographies of Eminent Monks(7th century CE).

These sources vary on their account of Bodhidharma being either "from Persia" (547 CE), "a Brahman monk from South India"

(645 CE), "the third son of a Brahman king of South India" (ca. 715 CE).[1]Some traditions specifically describe Bodhidharma to

be the third son of aPallava kingfromKanchipuram.[3][4]

The accounts also differ on the date of his arrival, with one early account claiming that he arrived during theLi Sng

Dynasty(420479) and later accounts dating his arrival to theLing Dynasty(502557). Bodhidharma was primarily active in the

lands of theNorthern Wi Dynasty(386534). Modern scholarship dates him to about the early 5th century.[5]

Several stories about Bodhidharma have become popular legends, which are still being used in the Ch'an and Zen-tradition.

Bodhidharma's teachings and practice centered on meditation and theLankavatara Sutra.

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 theBuddhahimself.

ThroughoutBuddhist art, Bodhidharma is depicted as a rather ill-tempered, profusely bearded and wide-eyed barbarian. He is

described as "The Blue-EyedBarbarian" in Chinese texts.[6]
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Contents

1 Biography

o 1.1 Contemporary accounts

1.1.1 Yng Xunzh (Yang Hsan-chih) - The Record of

the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang

1.1.2 T'an-ln's preface to the Two Entrances and Four

Acts

o 1.2 Later accounts

1.2.1 Doxun (Tao-hsuan) - Further Biographies of

Eminent Monks

1.2.2 Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall

1.2.3 Doyun - Transmission of the Lamp

2 Legends about Bodhidharma

o 2.1 Encounter with Emperor Xio Yn

o 2.2 Nine years of wall-gazing

o 2.3 Huike cuts off his arm

o 2.4 Bodhidharma at Shaolin

o 2.5 Travels of Bodhidharma

o 2.6 Appearance after his death

3 Modern scholarship

o 3.1 Biography as a hagiographic proces

o 3.2 Origins and place of birth

o 3.3 Indian caste system

o 3.4 Bodhidharma's name

o 3.5 Bodhidharma's abode in China

o 3.6 Martial arts

4 Practice and teaching

o 4.1 Pointing directly to one's mind

o 4.2 Wall-gazing

o 4.3 The Lakvatra Stra

5 Students

6 Lineage

o 6.1 Early lineage

6.1.1 Epitaph for Fr

6.1.2 Oversight of various lineages

o 6.2 Lineage from kyamuni Buddha to Bodhidharma

6.2.1 Yngji Xunju - Song of Enlightenment

6.2.2 Transmission of the Light

7 Works attributed to Bodhidharma
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Contemporary accounts

There are two known extant accounts written by contemporaries of Bodhidharma.

Yng Xunzh (Yang Hsan-chih) - The Record of the Buddhist

Monasteries of Luoyang

ADehua wareporcelain statuette of Bodhidharma, from the lateMing Dynasty, 17th century

The earliest text on Bodhidharma, is a contemporary account by Yng Xunzh (Yang-Hsuan-chih), a writer and

translator ofMahynaBuddhist texts into the Chinese language. He compiled in 547The Record of the Buddhist
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Monasteries ofLuoyang(Luyng Qilnj), was compiled in by Yng Xunzh. He gives the following

account:

"At that time there was a monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian. He traveled from

the wild borderlands to China. Seeing the golden disks [on the pole on top of Yngnng's stupa]reflecting in the sun, the

rays of light illuminating the surface of the clouds, the jewel-bells on the stupa blowing in the wind, the echoes

reverberating beyond the heavens, he sang its praises. He exclaimed: "Truly this is the work of spirits." He said: "I am 150years old, and I have passed through numerous countries. There is virtually no country I have not visited. Even the distant

Buddha-realms lack this." He chanted homage and placed his palms together in salutation for days on end. "[7]

Dumouling gives another translation of the same text:

"In those days there was a Sramana Bodhidharma from the western regions, originally a man from Persia. He came from

rugged countries and was staying in the Middle Land. When he beheld how the golden dome sparkled in the sun, how its

light reflected upon the surface of the clouds, how the precious bell housed the wind within itself, and how its voice rang

beyond the heavens, he sang a hymn of praise: "Truly how wonderful it all is!". He said that he was 150 years old and had

travelled all countries and had visited all regions, but that nothing inJambudvipawas comparable with the beauty of this

temple, that is surpassed all others, and that there was nothing like it anywhere. With hands clasped, he daily invoked

devotedly the name ofBuddha."[8]

T'an-ln's preface to theTwo Entrances and Four Acts

The second account was written by T'an-ln (; 506574). T'an-ln's brief biography of the "DharmaMaster" is found in

his preface to theTwo Entrances and Four Acts, a text traditionally attributed to Bodhidharma, and the first text to identify

Bodhidharma asSouth Indian:

"The Dharma Master was a South Indian of the Western Region. He was the third son of a great Indian king. His ambition

lay in theMahayanapath, and so he put aside his white layman's robe for the black robe of a monk [...] Lamenting the

decline of the true teaching in the outlands, he subsequently crossed distant mountains and seas, traveling about

propagating the teaching in Han and Wei."[9]

T'an-ln's account was the first to mention that Bodhidharma attracted disciples,[10]

specifically mentioning Doy ()

andHuk(), the latter of whom would later figure very prominently in the Bodhidharma literature.

T'an-ln has traditionally been considered a disciple of Bodhidharma, but it is more likely that he was a student of Huk,

who in turn was a student of Bodhidharma.

[11]
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Later accounts

Doxun (Tao-hsuan) - Further Biographies of Eminent Monks

This Japanese scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharmareads Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your

nature and becomeBuddha. It was created byHakuin Ekaku(1685 to 1768)

In the 7th-century historical work Further Biographies of Eminent Monks(X gosng zhun),Doxun(;

596-667) possibly drew on Tanlin's preface as a basic source, but made several significant additions:

Firstly, Doxun adds more detail concerning Bodhidharma's origins, writing that he was of "South IndianBrahminstock"

(nn tinzh plumn zhng).[12]

Secondly, more detail is provided concerning Bodhidharma's journeys. Tanlin's original is imprecise about Bodhidharma's

travels, saying only that he "crossed distant mountains and seas" before arriving in Wei. Doxun's account, however,

implies "a specific itinerary":[13]"He first arrived atNan-yehduring the Sung period. From there he turned north and came

to the Kingdom of Wei".[12]

This implies that Bodhidharma had travelled to China by sea, and that he had crossed over

theYangtze River.

Thirdly, Doxun suggests a date for Bodhidharma's arrival in China. He writes that Bodhidharma makes landfall in the

time of theSong, thus making his arrival no later than the time of the Song's fall to theSouthern Qi Dynastyin 479.[13]

Finally, Doxun provides information concerning Bodhidharma's death. Bodhidharma, he writes, died at the banks of the

Luo River, where he was interred by his discipleHuike, possibly in a cave. According to Doxun's chronology,
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Bodhidharma's death must have occurred prior to 534, the date of the Northern Wei Dynasty's fall, because Huike

subsequently leaves Luoyang forYe. Furthermore, citing the shore of the Luo River as the place of death might possibly

suggest that Bodhidharma died inthe mass executions at Heyin in 528. Supporting this possibility is a report in

theTaish shinsh daizkystating that a Buddhist monk was among the victims at Hyn.[14]

Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall

In the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall(Ztngj) of 952, the elements of the traditional Bodhidharma story are in

place. Bodhidharma is said to have been a disciple ofPrajtra,[15]thus establishing the latter as the 27th patriarch in

India. After a three-year journey, Bodhidharma reaches China in 527[15]

during theLiang Dynasty(as opposed to the Song

period of the 5th century, as in Doxun). TheAnthology of the Patriarchal Hallincludes Bodhidharma's encounter

withEmperor Wu, which was first recorded around 758 in the appendix to a text by Shen-hui (), a disciple of

Huineng.[16]

Finally, as opposed to Daoxuan's figure of "over 150 years,"[17]

the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hallstates that

Bodhidharma died at the age of 150. He was then buried on Mount Xiong'er (Xingr Shn) to the west of

Luoyang. However, three years after the burial, in thePamir Mountains, Sngyn ()an official of one of the later Wei

kingdomsencountered Bodhidharma, who claimed to be returning to India and was carrying a single sandal.

Bodhidharma predicted the death of Songyun's ruler, a prediction which was borne out upon the latter's return.

Bodhidharma's tomb was then opened, and only a single sandal was found inside.

Insofar as, according to the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall, Bodhidharma left the Liang court in 527 and relocated

toMount Songnear Luoyang and theShaolin Monastery, where he "faceda wall for nine years, not speaking for the

entire time",[18]his date of death can have been no earlier than 536. Moreover, his encounter with the Wei official indicates

a date of death no later than 554, three years before the fall of thelast Wei kingdom.

Doyun - Transmission of the Lamp

Subsequent to the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall, the only dated addition to the biography of Bodhidharma is in

theJingde Records of the Transmission of the Lamp(Jngd chundng l, published 1004CE), by Doyun

(), in which it is stated that Bodhidharma's original name had been Bodhitra but was changed by his master

Prajtra.[19]. The same account is given by the Japanese master Keizan's 13th century work of the same title.[20].

Legends about Bodhidharma

Several stories about Bodhidharma have become popular legends, which are still being used in the Ch'an and Zen-

tradition.
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Encounter with Emperor Xio YnThe Anthology of the Patriarchal Halltells us that in 527 during theLiang Dynasty, Bodhidharma, the first Patriarch of

Chn, visited theEmperor Wu(Emperor Xio Yn(posthumous name Wd) of Ling China), a fervent

patron of Buddhism:

Emperor Wu: "How much karmic merit have I earned for ordaining Buddhist monks, building monasteries, having sutras

copied, and commissioningBuddhaimages?"

Bodhidharma: "None. Good deeds done with worldly intent bring good karma, but no merit."

Emperor Wu: "So what is the highest meaning of noble truth?"

Bodhidharma: "There is no noble truth, there is only void."

Emperor Wu: "Then, who is standing before me?"

Bodhidharma: "I know not, Your Majesty."[21]

After Bodhidharma left, the Emperor asked the official in charge of the Imperial Annals about the encounter. The Official of

the Annals then asked the Emperor if he still denied knowing who Bodhidharma was? When the Emperor said he didn't

know, the Official said, "This was the Great-beingGuanyin(i.e., the MahasattvaAvalokitevara) transmitting the imprint of

the Buddha's Heart-Mind."

The Emperor regretted his having let Bodhidharma leave and was going to dispatch a messenger to go and beg

Bodhidharma to return. The Official then said, "Your Highness, do not say to send out a messenger to go fetch him. The

people of the entire nation could go, and he still would not return."[citation needed]

This encounter was included as the firstkanof the koan-collection TheBlue Cliff Record.

Nine years of wall-gazingFailing to make a favorable impression in Southern China, Bodhidharma is said to have traveled tothe northern Chinese

kingdom of Weito theShaolin Monastery. After either being refused entry to the temple or being ejected after a short

time, he lived in a nearby cave, where he "faced a wall for nine years, not speaking for the entire time".[18]

The biographical tradition is littered with apocryphal tales about Bodhidharma's life and circumstances. In one version of

the story, he is said to have fallen asleep seven years into his nine years of wall-gazing. Becoming angry with himself, he

cut off his eyelids to prevent it from happening again.[22]

According to the legend, as his eyelids hit the floor the firsttea

plantssprang up; and thereafterteawould provide a stimulant to help keep students of Chn awake duringmeditation.[23]

The most popular account relates that Bodhidharma was admitted into the Shaolin temple after nine years in the cave and

taught there for some time. However, other versions report that he "passed away, seated upright";[18]

or that he

disappeared, leaving behind theYi Jin Jing;[24]

or that his legs atrophied after nine years of sitting,[25]

which is why

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Huike cuts off his arm

In one legend, Bodhidharma refused to resume teaching until his would-be student,Dazu Huike, who had kept vigil for

weeks in the deep snow outside of the monastery, cut off his own left arm to demonstrate sincerity.[26]

Bodhidharma at Shaolin

Further information:Shaolin Monastery#Patron saint

Some Chinese accounts describe Bodhidharma as being disturbed by the poor physical shape of the Shaolin monks, after

which he instructed them in techniques to maintain their physical condition as well as teaching meditation. He is sa id to

have taught a series of external exercises called the Eighteen Arhat Hands (Shi-ba Lohan Shou), and an internal practice

called the Sinew Metamorphosis Classic.[27]

In addition, after his departure from the temple, two manuscripts by

Bodhidharma were said to be discovered inside the temple: theYijin Jing( or "Muscle/Tendon Change Classic")

and the Xi Sui Jing. Copies and translations of theYi Jin Jingsurvive to the modern day. The Xi Sui Jing has been lost[28]

.

Travels of Bodhidharma

According toSoutheast Asianfolklore, Bodhidharma travelled fromsouth Indiaby sea toSumatra,Indonesiafor the

purpose of spreading theMahayanadoctrine. FromPalembang, he went north into what are nowMalaysiaandThailand.

He travelled the region transmitting his knowledge ofBuddhismandmartial arts[29]

before eventually

enteringChinathroughVietnam. Malay legend holds that Bodhidharma introduced preset forms tosilat.[29]

Appearance after his death

Three years after Bodhidharma's death, Ambassador Song Yun of northern Wei is said to have seen him walking while

holding a shoe at thePamir Heights. Song Yun asked Bodhidharma where he was going, to which Bodhidharma replied "I

am going home". When asked why he was holding his shoe, Bodhidharma answered "You will know when you reach

Shaolin monastery. Don't mention that you saw me or you will meet with disaster". After arriving at the palace, Song Yun

told the emperor that he met Bodhidharma on the way. The emperor said Bodhidharma was already dead and buried, and

had Song Yun arrested for lying. At theShaolin Temple, the monks informed them that Bodhidharma was dead and had

been buried in a hill behind the temple. The grave was exhumed and was found to contain a single shoe. The monks then

said "Master has gone back home" and prostrated three times.

For nine years he had remained and nobody knew him;

Carrying a shoe in hand he went home quietly, without ceremony.[30]

Modern scholarship
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Bodhidharma has been the subject of critical scientific research, which has shed new light on the traditional stories about

Bodhidharma.

Biography as a hagiographic proces

According to John McRae, Bodhidharma has been the subject of ahagiographic proceswhich served the needs of the

Chinese Ch'an movement. According to him it is not possible to write an accurate biography of Bodhidharma:

"It is ultimately impossible to reconstruct any original or accurate biography of the man whose life serves as the original

trace of his hagiography - where "trace" is a term from Jacques Derrida meaning the beginningless beginning of a

phenomenon, the imagined but always intellectually unattainable origin. Hence any such attempt by modern biographers

to reconstruct a definitive account of Bodhidharma's life is both doomed to failure and potentially no different in intent from

the hagiographical efforts of premodern writers"[31]

McRae's standpoint accords with Yanagida's standpoint:

"Yanagida ascribes great historical value to the witness of the disciple T'an-lin, but at the same time acknowledges the

presence of "many puzzles in the biography of Bodhidharma". Given the present state of the sources, he considers it

impossible to compile a reliable account of Bodhidharma's life".[32]

Several scholars have suggested that the composed image of Bodhidharma depended on the combination of supposed

historical information on various historical figures over several centuries[33]

. Bodhidharma as a historical person may even

never have actually existed[34]

Origins and place of birth

Dumoulin comments on the three principal sources. The Persian heritage is doubtfull, according to Dumoulin:

"In the description of the Lo-yang temple, bodhidharma is called a Persian. Given the ambiguityof geographical references

in writings of this period, such a statement should not be taken too seriously".[35]

Dumoulin considers Tan-lin's account of Bodhidharma being "the third son of a great Brahman king" to be a later addition,

and finds the exact meaning of "South Indian Brahman stock" unclear:[36]

"And when Tao-hsuan speaks of origins from South Indian Brahman stock, it is not clear whether he is referring to roots in

nobility or to India in general as the land of the Brahmans"

These Chinese sources lend themselves to make inferences about Bodhidharma's origins. "The third son of a Brahmin

king" has been speculated to mean "the third son of a Pallavine king"[37]

. Based on a specific pronounciation of the

Chinese characters as Kang-zhi, "meaning fragrance extreme"[37]

, Tstuomu Kambe identifies to

beKanchipuram, an old capital town in the state Tamil-Nadu. According to Tstuomu Kambe:

"Kanchi means 'a radiant jewel' or 'a luxury belt with jewels', and puram means a town or a state in the sense of earlier

times. Thus, it is understood that the '-Kingdom' corresponds to the old capital 'Kanchipuram'."[37]
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Indian caste system

In the context of theIndian caste systemthe mention of "Brahman king"[38]

acquires a nuance.Brahminsare the priestly

class. But Broughton notes that "king" implies that Bodhidharma was of a member of theKshatriyacaste of warriors and

rulers[39]

.

Bodhidharma's name

According to tradition Bodhidharma was given this name by his teacher known variously as Panyatara,Prajnatara, or

Prajdhara.[40]

Bodhidharma is associated with several other names, and is also known by the name Bodhitara. Faure notes that:

"Bodhidharmas name appears sometimes truncated as Bodhi, or more often as Dharma (Ta-mo). In the first case, it may

be confused with another of his rivals,Bodhiruci."[41]

Tibetan sources give his name as "Bodhidharmottra" or"Dharmottara", that is, "Highest teaching (dharma) of

enlightenment".[42]

Bodhidharma's abode in China

Buswell dates Bodhidharma abode in China approximately at the early 5th century.[43]

Broughton dates Bodhidharma's

presence in Luoyang to between 516 and 526, when the temple referred toYngnngs (), was at the height of its

glory.[44]

Starting in 526, Yngnngs suffered damage from a series of events, ultimately leading to its destruction in

534.[45]

Martial arts

Traditionally Bodhidharma is being credited to be the founder of the martial arts at the Shaolin Temple. However, martial

arts historians have shown this legend stems from a 17th centuryqigongmanual known as theYijin Jing.[46]

.

The authenticity of the Yi Jin Jinghas been discredited by some historians including Tang Hao, Xu Zhen and Matsuda

Ryuchi. This argument is summarized by modern historian Lin Boyuan in his Zhongguo wushu shi:

As for the "Yi Jin Jing" (Muscle Change Classic), a spurious text attributed to Bodhidharma and included in the legend of

his transmitting martial arts at the temple, it was written in the Ming dynasty, in 1624, by the Daoist priest Zining of Mt.

Tiantai, and falsely attributed to Bodhidharma. Forged prefaces, attributed to the Tang general Li Jing and the Southern

Song general Niu Gao were written. They say that, after Bodhidharma faced the wall for nine years at Shaolin temple, he

left behind an iron chest; when the monks opened this chest they found the two books "Xi Sui Jing" (Marrow Washing

Classic) and "Yi Jin Jing" within. The first book was taken by his disciple Huike, and disappeared; as for the second, "the

monks selfishly coveted it, practicing the skills therein, falling into heterodox ways, and losing the correct purpose of

cultivating the Real. The Shaolin monks have made some fame for themselves through their fighting skill; this is all due to
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having obtained this manuscript." Based on this, Bodhidharma was claimed to be the ancestor of Shaolin martial arts. This

manuscript is full of errors, absurdities and fantastic claims; it cannot be taken as a legitimate source.[24]

The oldest available copy was published in 1827[47]

and the composition of the text itself has been dated to 1624.[24]

Even

then, the association of Bodhidharma with martial arts only becomes widespread as a result of the 19041907

serialization of the novel The Travels of Lao Ts'anin Illustrated Fiction Magazine[48]

:

One of the most recently invented and familiar of the Shaolin historical narratives is a story that claims that the Indian

monk Bodhidharma, the supposed founder of Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhism, introduced boxing into the monastery as a

form of exercise around a.d. 525. This story first appeared in a popular novel, The Travels of Lao Tsan, published as a

series in a literary magazine in 1907. This story was quickly picked up by others and spread rapidly through publication in

a popular contemporary boxing manual, Secrets of Shaolin Boxing Methods, and the first Chinese physical culture history

published in 1919. As a result, it has enjoyed vast oral circulation and is one of the most sacred of the narratives shared

within Chinese and Chinese-derived martial arts. That this story is clearly a twentieth-century invention is confirmed by

writings going back at least 250 years earlier, which mention both Bodhidharma and martial arts but make no connection

between the two.[49]

Practice and teaching

Bodhidharma is traditionally seen as introducing dhyana-practice in China.

Pointing directly to one's mindOne of the fundamental Chn texts attributed to Bodhidharma is a four-line stanza whose first two verses echo

the Lakvatra Stra's disdain for words and whose second two verses stress the importance of the insight into reality

achieved through "self-realization":

"A special transmission outside the scriptures,

Not founded upon words and letters;

By pointing directly to [one's] mind

It lets one see into [one's own true] nature and [thus] attain Buddhahood."[50]

The stanza, in fact, is not Bodhidharma's, but rather dates to the year 1108.[51]
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Wall-gazing

Bodhidharma seated in meditation before a wall; ink painting bySessh

Tanlin, in the preface to Two Entrances and Four Acts, and Daoxuan, in the Further Biographies of Eminent Monks,

mention a practice of Bodhidharma's termed "wall-gazing" (bgun). Both Tanlin[52]

and Daoxuan[53]

associate this

"wall-gazing" with "quieting [the] mind"[10]

(n xn).

In the Two Entrances and Four Acts, traditionally attributed to Bodhidharma, the term "wall-gazing" is given as follows:

"Those who turn from delusion back to reality, whomeditate on walls, the absence of self and other, the oneness of morta

and sage, and who remain unmoved even by scriptures are in complete and unspoken agreement with reason".[54]

Daoxuan states: "The merits of Mahyna wall-gazing are the highest".[55]

These are the first mentions in the historical record of what may be a type ofmeditationbeing ascribed to Bodhidharma.

Exactly what sort of practice Bodhidharma's "wall-gazing" was remains uncertain. Nearly all accounts have treated it

either as an undefined variety of meditation, as Daoxuan and Dumoulin[55]

, or as a variety of seated meditation akin to

thezazen(; Chinese: zuchn) that later became a defining characteristic of Chn. The latter interpretation is

particularly common among those working from a Ch'an standpoint.[56]

There have also, however, been interpretations of "wall-gazing" as a non-meditative phenomenon.[57]

The Lakvatra Stra

There are early texts which explicitly associate Bodhidharma with the Lakvatra Stra. Daoxuan, for example, in a late

recension of his biography of Bodhidharma's successorHuike, has the stra as a basic and important element of the

teachings passed down by Bodhidharma:
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"In the beginning Dhyana Master Bodhidharma took the four-rollLak Stra, handed it over to Huike, and said: "When I

examine the land of China, it is clear that there is only this sutra. If you rely on it to practice, you will be able to cross over

the world."[58]

Another early text, the Record of the Masters and Disciples of the Lakvatra Stra (Lngqi shz j) of

Jngju (; 683750), also mentions Bodhidharma in relation to this text. Jingjue's account also makes explicit mention

of "sitting meditation", or zazen[59]

:

"For all those who sat in meditation, Master Bodhi[dharma] also offered expositions of the main portions of

theLakvatra Stra, which are collected in a volume of twelve or thirteen pages,[60][...] bearing the title ofTeaching of

[Bodhi-]Dharma".[61]

In other early texts, the school that would later become known as C'an is sometimes referred to as the "Lakvatra

school" (Lngqi zng).[62]

TheLakvatra Stra, one of theMahyna Buddhiststras, is a highly "difficult and obscure" text[63]whose basic thrust

is to emphasize "the innerenlightenmentthat does away with all duality and is raised above all distinctions".[64]

It is among

the first and most important texts in theYogcra, or "Consciousness-only", school of Mahyna Buddhism.[65]

One of the recurrent emphases in the Lakvatra Stra is a lack of reliance on words to effectively express reality:

If, Mahamati, you say that because of the reality of words the objects are, this talk lacks in sense. Words are not known in

all the Buddha-lands; words, Mahamati, are an artificial creation. In some Buddha-lands ideas are indicated by looking

steadily, in others by gestures, in still others by a frown, by the movement of the eyes, by laughing, by yawning, or by the

clearing of the throat, or by recollection, or by trembling.[66]

In contrast to the ineffectiveness of words, the stra instead stresses the importance of the "self-realization" that is

"attained by noble wisdom"[67]

and occurs "when one has an insight into reality as it is":[68]

"The truth is the state of self-

realization and is beyond categories of discrimination".[69]

The stra goes on to outline the ultimate effects of an

experience of self-realization:

[TheBodhisattva] will become thoroughly conversant with the noble truth of self-realization, will become a perfect master

of his own mind, will conduct himself without effort, will be like a gem reflecting a variety of colours, will be able to assume

the body of transformation, will be able to enter into the subtle minds of all beings, and, because of his firm belief in the

truth of Mind-only, will, by gradually ascending the stages, become established in Buddhahood.[70]

Students

In the Two Entrances and Four Actsand the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks, Daoyu and Huike are the only

explicitly identified disciples of Bodhidharma. The Jngd Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (Jngd chundng l

) of Doyun, presented to the emperor in 1004, gives Bodhidharma four disciples who, in increasing
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order of understanding, are Dof, who attains Bodhidharma's skin; the nun Dharani,[71]who attains Bodhidharma's

flesh; Doy, who attains Bodhidharma's bone; and Huk , who attains Bodhidharma's marrow.

Heng-Ching Shih[72]

states that according to the Jngd chundng l the first `bhikuni` mentioned in the

Chn literature was a disciple of the First Patriarch of Chinese Chn Bodhidharma, known as Zngzh [early-mid 6th

century]; Bodhidharma before returning to India after many years of teaching in China asked his disciples Dof, Bhikuni

Zngzh, Doy and Huk to relate their realization of the Dharma.[73]Zngzh is also known by her title Soji, and by

Myoren, her nun name. In the Shbgenz chapter called Katto ("Twining Vines") by Dgen Zenji

(12001253), she is named as one of Bodhidharma's four Dharma heirs. Although the First Patriarch's line continued

through another of the four, Dogen emphasizes that each of them had a complete understanding of the teaching.[74]

Lineage

D.T. Suzukicontends that Ch'an's growth in popularity during the 7th and 8th centuries attracted criticism that it had "no

authorized records of its direct transmission from the founder of Buddhism" and that Ch'an historians made Bodhidharma

the 28th patriarch of Buddhism in response to such attacks.[75]

In the 6th century biographies of famous monks were

collected. From this genre the typical Ch'an-lineage was developed:

"These famous biographies were non-sectarian. The Ch'an biographical works, however, aimed to establish Ch'an as a

legitimate school of Buddhism traceable to its Indian origins, and at the same time championed a particular form of Ch'an.

Historical accuracy was of little concern to the compilers; old legends were repeated, new stories were invented and

reiterated until they too became legends".[76]

Early lineage

The earliest lineages described the lineage from Bodhidharma into the 5th to 7th generation of patriarchs.

Epitaph for Fr

The idea of apatriarchal lineagein Ch'an dates back to theepitaphfor Fr ( 638689), a disciple of the 5th patriarch

Hngrn ( 601674), which gives a line of descent identifying Bodhidharma as the first patriarch.[77]

Oversight of various lineages

Various records of different authors are known, which give a variation of transmission lines:
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The Continued

Biographies

of Eminent Monks

X gosng zhun

of Doxun

(596-667)

The Record of the

Transmission

of the Dharma-Jewel

Chun fbo j

of D Fi

History of Masters and Disciples of the

Lakvatra-Stra

Lngqi shz j

of Jngju

(ca. 683 - ca. 650)

The Xinzngj

of Shnhu

1 Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Bodhidharma

2Huk (487? -

593)

Doy Doy Doy

Huk (487? - 593) Huk (487? - 593)Huk (487? -

593)

3 Sngcn (d.606) Sngcn (d.606) Sngcn (d.606) Sngcn(d.606)

4Doxn (580 -

651)Doxn (580 - 651) Doxn (580 - 651)

Doxn (580 -

651)

5Hngrn (601 -

674)Hngrn (601 - 674) Hngrn (601 - 674)

Hngrn (601 -

674)

6 -

Fr (638-689) Shnxi (606? - 706)

Hunng (638-

713)Shnxi (606? - 706)

(606? - 706)Xunz

7 - - -Xunju (665-

713)

Lineage from kyamuni Buddh

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