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	Bodhidharma
		Bodhidharma is traditionally held to be the founder of the Ch'an (known in Japan and the West as Zen) school of Buddhism, and the Shaolin school of kung fu.
		With this, Bodhidharma was banished from the Court, and is said to have sat in meditation for the next seven years "listening to the ants scream."
		Bodhidharma traveled to the recently constructed Shaolin temple in the south of China, where the monks refused him admission.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Bodhidarma.html (365 words)

	Bodhidharma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma is traditionally held to be the founder of the Chan school of Buddhism (known in Japan and the West as Zen), and the Shaolin school of Chinese martial arts.
		Bodhidharma is also associated in Legend with the use of tea to maintain wakefulness in meditation (the origin of Chado), and favoured paradoxes, conundrums and provocation as a way to break intellectual rigidity (a method which led to the development of koan).
		Emperor Wu According to tradition, Bodhidharma was invited to an audience with Emperor Wu Di of the Liang dynasty (Southern dynasties) in 520.
	bodhidharma.iqnaut.net (1514 words)

	Bodhidharma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma apparently also promoted the use of light stimulants such as tea to maintain wakefulness (the origin of Chado), and favoured paradoxes, conundrums and provocation as a way to break intellectual rigidity (a method which led to the development of Koan).
		With this, Bodhidharma was banished from the Court, and is said to have sat in meditation for the next seven years "listening to the ants scream." Bodhidharma traveled to the recently constructed Shaolin temple in the North of China, where the monks refused him admission.
		Bodhidharma died around 528 at the alleged age of 160, and was burried at the Shaolin Temple.
	bodhidharma.kiwiki.homeip.net (1316 words)

	Bodhidharma : quotes, biography and bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma began his life as a royal prince in Southern India in the Sardilli family in 482 A.D. In the midst of his education and training to continue in his father's footsteps as king, Bodhidharma encountered the Buddha's teachings.
		Bodhidharma was subsequently unable to convince Wu Ti of the value of the teachings he had brought from India.
		Bodhidharma, in true Mahayana spirit, was moved to pity when he saw the terrible physical condition of the monks of the Shaolin Temple.
	www.onelittleangel.com /wisdom/quotes/bodhidharma.asp (778 words)

	Chan teachings of Bodhidharma
		Bodhidharma: When a great bodhisattva delves deeply into perfect wisdom, he realizes that the four elements and five shades are devoid of a personal self.
		Bodhidharma: The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons.
		Bodhidharma: Mortals who don't understand true practice and blindly perform good deeds are born into the three higher states of existence within the three realms.
	www.purifymind.com /BodhiDharma.htm (11478 words)

	Bodhidharma, The First Patriarch of Chinese Zen Lineage (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma's Buddhist Master, Prajnatara, was the 27th Patriarch of Indian Buddhism, taught Bodhidharma for many years, gave him Mind Transmission, made him the 28th Patriarch, and gave him the name Bodhidharma.
		Because the communication between the Emperor and Bodhidharma was mutually unsatisfactory, Bodhidharma left the palace, crossed the Yangtzu River, and continued north until he arrived at the Shao Lin Temple in Ho Nan Province.
		Bodhidharma instructed his disciples that the Lankavatara Sutra be used to seal the mind.
	sped2work.tripod.com.cob-web.org:8888 /bdharma.html (456 words)

	The Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Assocation : Bodhidharma
		Bodhidharma is here reinterpreting its Confucian meaning (within which it was a stand-alone term) to make it instead represent a phronesic summary of practice.
		Bodhidharma is distinguishing between those who have such skills and those who truly are spiritualized through their actual practice of the Dharma.
		As Bodhidharma was trained in the Yogacara School--a direct descendant of the Dharmalaksana--the Alaya is probably what he refers to here when he speaics of something "beyond the creation of klesa." (Unwholesome traits) This is, perhaps deliberately, a very externalized and simplified presentation of the Buddhist teaching collceming one's attitude toward Karma.
	www.harmoniousfist.com /bodhidharma.html (2888 words)

	Bodhidharma
		Bodhidharma is traditionally held to be the founder of the Chan school of Buddhism (known in Japan and the West as Zen),
		Bodhidharma is also associated in Legend with the use of tea to maintain wakefulness in meditation (the origin of Chado), and
		Bodhidharma was the first Zen patriarch of China.
	bodhidharma.mindbit.com (1523 words)

	Bodhidharma and Zen
		Bodhidharma was intelligent enough to see the amazingly strong parallels between Buddha's teachings and the Tao He made one attempt to convey his beliefs to an Emperor, realized the fruitlessness of expressing them, and went off to live in a cave and meditate for nine years.
		Bodhidharma's extended meditation near the Shaolin Temple (yes, the kung-fu temple) is the root of Zen Buddhism.
		Little is known of Bodhidharma and the question has arisen whether he existed at all, as it has arisen as to whether the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, existed as one person.
	www.geocities.com /lastsamsara/05_BodhiD.html (1092 words)

	T'ang Ch'an and the Myth of Bodhidharma
		The fact that little is known about Bodhidharma is hardly unusual in the history of religions, where historical obscurity often serves as a prerequisite for posthumous claims regarding sectarian identity.
		Bodhidharma's role in the transformation of Chinese Buddhism was widely acknowledged by the beginning of the Sung.
		The association of this slogan with Lin-chi and Bodhidharma was the culmination of a process through which the identity of Ch'an was transformed by members of the Lin-chi lineage.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/welter.html (2624 words)

	Buddhist Schools: Ch'an / Zen Founder: Bodhidharma
		Bodhidharma is revered as the father of Ch'an and Zen Buddhism.
		In fact, Bodhidharma is this Cosmic Intellect or the Bodhi or Buddha Essence that is either Transcendental to the Transcendentalists [Chinese, SAN LUN; Japanese, SAN RON] or immanent to the lmmanentists [Chinese, Ch'an; Japanese, Zen].
		Thus, Bodhidharma or this Bodhi Essence "understood small things" as the Bodhi Essence is immanent, and also as this Bodhi is Absolute, it understood "things of great moment" or the Transcendentalist philosophy [Chinese, SAN LUN; Japanese, SAN RON] that asserts on Sequentiality or Time as the cause of Genesis.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/bodhidharma.htm (2883 words)

	Bodhidharma. Zen or Chan meditation was founded by Boddhidharma.
		Bodhidharma could see on the face of Emperor Wu such peace, such silence, such stillness as if he was a statue.
		Bodhidharma turned and said, "You are really a man worthy of me. No need to cut the head, we have to use it." This man, Hui Ke, was his first disciple.
		But in the night Bodhidharma was poisoned by some disciple as a revenge, because he had not been chosen as the successor.
	english.yinyangandtaichichuan.org /bodhidharma.html (3711 words)

	Bodhidharma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bodhidharma dies at the age of 150 and is buried on Mount Xiong'er to the west of Luoyang.
		Tradition holds that Bodhidharma's chosen sutra was the Lankavatara Sutra, a development of the Yogacara or "Mind-only" school of Buddhism established by the Gandharan half-brothers Asanga and Vasubandhu.
		Bodhidharma knew that he would face difficulty in the near future, but had the emperor been able to leave the throne and yield it to someone else, he could have avoided his fate of starving to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bodhidharma (1999 words)

	Chinese DaMo Qigong / Chi Gung
		Bodhidharma then sat meditating in a small cave for the next 9 years facing the rock wall that's about a mile from the Shaolin Temple, supposedly burning holes into the wall by staring at it and thus leaving a shadow upon the rock wall (In Damo Cave visitors can behold such sight).
		When Bodhidharma instituted these practices, his primary concern was to make the monks physically strong enough to withstand both their isolated lifestyle and to demand training that meditation requires.
		Bodhidharma was reportedly carrying a staff from which hung a single sandal, and he told the official that he was on his way back to India.
	www.damo-qigong.net /qigong/damo.htm (1611 words)

	FightingArts.com - Bodhidharma: Myth or Reality? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma's life has become the stuff of fables and legends - of mysterious sightings and life after death.
		The story goes that Bodhidharma meditated cross-legged facing a wall so long that he lost his legs, thus the doll's shape.
		In this multi-part series we will examine Bodhidharma and his association with the legendary Chinese Shaolin temple, and delve into the truth about his association with the martial arts and healing arts.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=79 (565 words)

	Bodhidharma presented in History section
		Born in 440, Bodhidharma was the youngest of three brothers in the royal family of the southern Indian kingdom of Pallava.
		Through their conversation, Bodhidharma knew that Emperor Wu was only interested in gaining merits and attaining buddhahood, but that he had no understanding of the essence of Buddhism.
		Bodhidharma had in fact seen Shen Kuang, but he was not sure whether the young man was just another curious visitor.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/bodhidharma (2090 words)

	Bodhidharma and Zen - The Gold Scales
		Bodhidharma said, "The words are fl and the paper is white.
		AFTER Bodhidharma arrived in what is today the port city of Canton, he travelled at the invitation of the Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (6th C) to visit him in Nanking.
		Bodhidharma was then carrying a staff; a single sandal was hanging from it.
	oaks.nvg.org /ys6ra7.html (2522 words)

	RESOLVING THE MIND: Bodhidharma, Page 3
		Bodhidharma was the third son of a king in what now is India.
		Bodhidharma was invited to the castle of the emperor Butei, who called himself "Emperor of the Buddha-mind." But Bodhidharma, seeing that Butei was but an ordinary man in relation to the Dharma, fled the castle.
		Bodhidharma took a look at the pitiful sight and said, "What do you search for standing in the snow?" He said, "I would like to hear the Dharma's compassionate teaching so that it could disseminate widely.
	sped2work.tripod.com /resolve3.html (3085 words)

	Bodhidharma
		Something we still experience in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, that a master defines more than one as his heir, and that the one, who sticks closest to the sangha eventually becomes the new “master” at home, while the others, same honored are likely to go out to found their own sanghas within the same school.
		It was after both had presented their true willigness to accept the teaching of Bodhidharma that he accepted them as disciples and – after nine years – ended his period in the cave, which is said, that the shadow he had cast had left trace in the stone.
		Hence, Bodhidharma did not teach a certain system of meditation, but meditativeness which could be taken into daily life with the strong faith that this practice would lead to the enlightened state of mind.
	www.alohazen.org /texts/daruma.htm (2987 words)

	The Root of it All - Bodhidharma
		In addition to Bodhidharma, he was Tamo to the Chinese, he is named Pu Tai Ta Mo in Sanskrit and Daruma Daishi in Japanese.
		Bodhidharma was born a prince in the southern regions of India and raised as a warrior to succeed his father as king.
		Bodhidharma was unable to convince Wu Ti of the value of the new teachings he brought from India.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_of_the_martial_arts/98612 (506 words)

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		Bodhidharma is considered the founder of Martial Arts in China, or at least for changing it radically from warring techniques to a practice of spiritual and health exercise.
		He was so angry at himself for failing that he cut off his eyelids and threw them to the ground, so that he would never close his eyes again during meditation and fall asleep.
		The quality of tea, which keeps one awake, is Bodhidharma’s gift to the Buddhist world of meditators, establishing the drinking of tea as an aid to alert meditation and spiritual development.
	www.tigermtteaco.com /bodhidharma.htm (364 words)

	Dharma Discourse: Bodhidharma's Skin, Flesh, Bones and Marrow by John Daido Loori Roshi
		In his commentary, Dogen made a statement that all four students of Bodhidharma were approved equally, in spite of the fact that the terms "skin, flesh, bones, and marrow" suggest a hierarchy of their understanding, from the most superficial to the most profound.
		Bodhidharma, like all Zen teachers, needed to face the fact that unless he transmitted to only one disciple, he had to solve the problem of how to recognize his other successors.
		Bodhidharma needed to make clear that the other disciples he transmitted to had equal understanding.
	www.mro.org /zmm/teachings/daido/teisho18.php (3604 words)

	Cory McKay - Music Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Bodhidharma is a software system for automatically classifying musical MIDI recordings based on pre-defined taxonomies.
		The Bodhidharma software allows the user to custom design his or her hierarchal taxonomy, choose the features on which to base classification, control the meta-data associated with recordings, extract features from MIDI recordings, train customized classifiers on model recordings and classify unknown recordings with trained classifiers.
		Bodhidharma is written in Java, which means that it can be run on any system that has the Java Runtime Environment installed on it.
	www.music.mcgill.ca /~cmckay/software/musictech/Bodhidharma_1.html (357 words)

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