- Bodhidharma These are some excerpts from The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine (North Point Press, 1987). I highly recommend the book. First some background. Bodhidharma was born in Kanchi in the Southern Indian kingdom of Pallava around year 440. At the instruction of Prajnatara he travelled to China by ship and arrived around 475. He is associated with the Shaolin temple, ...www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/zen/bodhidharma.html
- Bodhidharma, The First Patriarch of Chinese Zen Lineage ...sped2work.tripod.com/bdharma.html