A brief introduction to the origin of dharma founder

The founder of Dharma, an Indian native, was originally named bodhidharma and later renamed bodhidharma. He was born in South Tianzhu (India) and belongs to the czar caste. It is said that he is the third son of the King of Southern Tianzhu, and he devoted himself to Mahayana after becoming a monk. Prajna paramita, the founder of the twenty-seventh generation of Indian Zen, was a disciple and became the founder of the twenty-eighth generation of Indian Zen.

Dharma was very smart since he was a child, because King Xiang Zhi was very devout in Buddhism, so he was able to browse Buddhist scriptures in Dharma since he was a child, and he also had incisive opinions in conversation.

He is the ancestor of Mahayana Zen in China, so the Zen in China is also called Dharma Sect, which mainly promotes the two-in-four-line Zen method and the thought of Dharma founder, and has a great influence on China culture. Bodhidharma, commonly known as Dharma, also known as the first ancestor Dharma or the first ancestor Dharma, is the ancestor of Mahayana Buddhism, China Zen.

After arriving in China, Dharma became a disciple of Qiu Na Putuo Luo, belonging to Nantianzhu Yilu School (also known as Lengga School). Ask that Putuo Luo, whose meaning is translated into merit, is a middle-aged Tianzhu person. In the 20th year of Yuanjia in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 443), he translated four volumes of Lengyan Sutra. Later, Dharma disciples wrote four volumes of Shurangama Sutra.

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Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, is called Dharma or Dharma for short, which translates as enlightenment. According to the account in the Continued Biography of Monks, South Indians belong to Kashatri caste and are well versed in Mahayana Buddhism, which is highly respected by meditation practitioners.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, he taught Zen in Luoyang and Songshan. At that time, people had different views on the Zen Buddhism he preached, and thought that he died in Robin around the end of Wei Dynasty. According to the legend of Jingdezhen Lantern, people often call him the founder of Dharma, that is, the founder of Zen. His works are divided into six volumes, including Ode to Heart Sutra, Theory of Deformity, Two Kinds of Entering, Method of Relieving Mind, Theory of Understanding, Theory of Blood, etc.

There are also The Absolute View of Dharma Monks, The Interpretation of Bodhidharma without Mind, and The View of Bodhidharma of Southern Tianzhu Zen Master unearthed in Dunhuang, which are mostly entrusted by later generations. Disciples include Hui Ke, Yudao, Vice Monk and Lin Tan. Wu Liang died in Datong for two years at the age of 150.

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