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Key Takeaway: According to tradition, he was a South Indian prince who traveled to China and taught a direct, mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhism outside the scriptures.
According to tradition, he was a South Indian prince who traveled to China and taught a direct, mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhism outside the scriptures. He is associated with the Shaolin Temple, wall-gazing meditation (biguān, 壁观), and the key Zen insight that awakening is seeing one's own nature. • Scale changes everything • The truest words do not try to win
In the tradition of Zen Buddhism, as transmitted through the teachings of masters from Bodhidharma to Dogen, According to tradition, he was a South Indian prince who traveled to China and taught a direct, mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhism outside the scriptures.
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According to tradition, he was a South Indian prince who traveled to China and taught a direct, mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhism outside the scriptures..
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He is associated with the Shaolin Temple, wall-gazing meditation (biguān, 壁观), and the key Zen insight that awakening is seeing one's own nature..
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According to tradition, he was a South Indian prince who traveled to China and taught a direct, mind-to-mind transmission of Buddhism outside the scriptures..
Bodhidharma teachings
He is associated with the Shaolin Temple, wall-gazing meditation (biguān, 壁观), and the key Zen insight that awakening is seeing one's own nature..