Bodhidharma

[ boh-di-duhr-muh ]

/ ˈboʊ dɪˈdʌr mə /

died a.d. c530, Indian Buddhist philosopher and missionary: founder of Ch'an in China, which was later called Zen in Japan.

Example sentences from the Web for bodhidharma

But the school of Bodhidharma continues the series, reckoning him as the twenty-eighth, and the first of the Chinese Patriarchs.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Charles Eliot
This communication was silently passed on by Kshyapa to his disciple, and so ultimately to Bodhidharma, who brought it to China.

Zen Buddhism |Arthur Waley
It must have been about this time that Bodhidharma left India for he arrived in Canton about 520.

Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) |Charles Eliot
Zen, said Bodhidharma, cannot be described in words nor chronicled in books; and I have no other experience of Zen.

Zen Buddhism |Arthur Waley

The T'ien-t'ai school has some originality, and native and foreign ideas were combined by the followers of Bodhidharma.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Charles Eliot

Bodhidharma

/ (ˌbəʊdɪˈdɑːmə, ˌbɒd-) /

6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism