WHO IS BODHIDHARAMA

                                  
 THE NEW BODHIDHARMA....

  

                             



Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th/6th century and is traditionally credited as the leading patriarch and transmitter of Zen  to China. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the shaolin monks that led to the creation of shaolinquin. However, martial arts historians have shown this legend stems from a 17th century  manual known as the yijin jing.


Little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is extant, and subsequent accounts became layered with legend, but many accounts state that he was from a Brahmin family in Southern India and possibly of royal lineage. Scholars have concluded his place of birth to be Kanchipuram  in Tamil nadu, Imdia.


                           


After becoming a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma traveled to China. He arrived by 420 AD. Bodhidharma was primarily active in the lands of the Northern wei dynasity (386–534). Modern scholarship dates him to about the early 5th century.


Throughout Buddhist Art, Bodhidharma is depicted as a rather ill-tempered, profusely bearded and wide-eyed barbarian. He is described as "The Blue-Eyed Barbarian" in Chinese texts.


The Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall (952) identifies Bodhidharma as the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism in an uninterrupted line that extends all the way back to the Buddha himself. D.T.Suzuki contends that Chán's growth in popularity during the 7th and 8th centuries attracted criticism that it had "no authorized records of its direct transmission from the founder of Buddhism" and that Chán historians made Bodhidharma the 28th patriarch of Buddhism in response to such attacks....


Finally he died in chinese soil as per the request of those people to make their land pure with his body.