Essays on Bodhidharma Patriarch

History of Zen Buddhism
... The monk Huikamp39o, who Bodhidharma later made the Second Patriarch, asked the master for instruction time and time again, but was refused. ...
(2846 Words -- Approx. 11 Pages)
Zen Buddhism: Characteristics and Origins
... passed it on to a line of 28 successors, culminating in Bodhidharma, who brought the tradition to China in about the year AD 500, becoming the First Patriarch. ...
(2132 Words -- Approx. 9 Pages)

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