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Bodhidharma in history:

Biography of the character

Bodhidharma Patriarch, the original Indian, formerly known as Bodhidharma, later renamed Bodhidharma, self-proclaimed Buddha Zen Buddhism 28th ancestor, Chinese Zen Buddhism is the ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism, so China's Zen Buddhism is also known as Bodhidharma Buddhism, mainly preaching the two into the four elements of Zen, Bodhidharma Patriarch's thoughts, has a great impact on Chinese culture. Bodhidharma (English: Bodhidharma; ?) ~536, also said 532, 528) commonly known as Bodhidharma, also known as the first ancestor Bodhidharma, is the ancestor of Mahayana Buddhism and Chinese Zen Buddhism. He was born in Nantianzhu (India), Kshatriya caste, and legend has it that he was the third son of King Xiangzhi of Nantianzhu, who devoted himself to Mahayana Buddhism after becoming a monk, and became a master of Prajnatara after becoming a monk.

In the middle of the Southern Dynasty Liang (520~526, the end of the Southern Song Dynasty), he sailed from India to Guangzhou, and from here he traveled north to the Northern Wei Dynasty, teaching people with Zen everywhere.

It is said that he saw the exquisite architecture of the pagoda of Yongning Temple in Luoyang, and said that he was one hundred and fifty years old, and he had never seen it in all the countries he had traveled, so he "sang Nanwu with his mouth and clasped his palms for days" ("Luoyang Jialanji" Volume 1).

His name was originally Bodhitara, but when he became an adult, he changed his name to Dharma Dora according to custom, and he was the eldest disciple of the 27th Patriarch of Indian Zen Buddhism, His Holiness Prajnata, and became the 28th patriarch of Indian Zen Buddhism. Bodhidharma has been very intelligent since he was a child, because the king of Xiangzhi is very devout to the Dharma, so Bodhidharma has been able to read Buddhist scriptures since he was a child, and he will have incisive insights in conversation.

When Venerable Prajnata traveled through the kingdom of Tianzhu, he promoted the Dharma and educated sentient beings along the way. Bodhidharma was attracted by the ideals of the Venerable Prajnata to benefit all living beings and the rich wisdom of Buddhism, so he worshipped under the disciples of the Venerable Prajnata, became a disciple of Zen Buddhism, and vowed to unify the Buddhist ideas that were divided in India at that time, so that the Dharma could be revitalized in India. Later, Bodhidharma inherited the mantle of his master and promoted Buddhism in Tianzhu. One day, he heard that his nephew, the dissident king who had succeeded to the throne of Nantianzhu, was going to adopt a decree prohibiting faith in order to protect his country from being bullied by foreigners.

Bodhidharma then sent his disciple Bharati to advise him, and Borodi succeeded in reversing the dissident king's policy of banning religion and making the dissident king a devout Buddhist.

After Bodhidharma arrived in China, he became a disciple of the Purnabhadra and belonged to the Nantianzhu One Vehiclea Sect (also known as the Ranga Sect). Seeking that Gunabhadra (gunabhadra), translated as merit and virtuous, Zhongtianzhu people. In the twentieth year of Song Yuanjia of the Southern Dynasty (443 AD), he translated the four volumes of the Ranga Abhatara Sutra. Later Bodhidharma used this four-volume "Ranga Sutra" to teach the disciples.

Place of burial

The empty phase temple is the burial place of the first ancestor of Buddhism, the Bodhidharma master, Honghan, come here to seek the roots and ask the ancestors of the ancient empty phase temple was the Buddha gate in the past

Bodhidharma Holy Land

According to the records of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China's "Shaanzhou Chronicles", Buddhism was introduced to Shaanzhou in the tenth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (67 AD), and the Kongxiang Temple was built, which has been more than 1900 years ago, and is the holy place of Buddhism in the same period as the White Horse Temple, the first ancient temple in China. Kongxiang Temple is the burial place of Bodhidharma, the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, which is famous for Bodhidharma who sacrificed his body to seek the Dharma and founded Zen Buddhism.

According to historical records, after the first ancestor of Bodhidharma preached the Dharma in Shaolin Temple, he went to Dinglin Temple under Bears Ears Mountain to preach the Dharma for 5 years, and in the second year of Emperor Wu of Liang? 536 AD? He died in December at the age of 150.

The monks were extremely grieved, and according to the Buddha's rites, the first ancestor was buried in the Dinglin Temple, and the Dharma Spiritual Pagoda and the Dharma Hall were built. Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu personally wrote the inscription "Ode to Bodhidharma Master of the Southern Dynasty and Preface" to commemorate the founding of Zen Buddhism by Bodhidharma Master.

Later, in the first year of Yuanxiang, the envoys of the Eastern Wei Dynasty returned from the Western Regions to learn scriptures, and met the master Bodhidharma who only returned to the west with a cane, and immediately reported to the emperor.

When the emperor heard this, he ordered someone to dig up the tomb of Bodhidharma, only to see only an empty coffin, and he knew that the master had been detached into a Buddha, so he renamed Dinglin Temple as "Empty Phase Temple".

Native caste

Regarding Bodhidharma's origin and his caste, Zen books also have different legends, according to the "Luoyang Jialanji" called him "Persian Hu people"; The sixth volume of the "Kaiyuan Commentary" also quotes the Bodhi Liuzhi biography: "The Shamen Dharma in the Western Regions is also a Persian countryman." And "Continuing the Biography of High Monks" says: "Nantianzhu Brahmin species". However, the "Records of the Dharma Treasures of the Past Dynasties" contains: "The third son of the king of Nantianzhu, a young monk, was enlightened by the master at an early age, expounded the Nantian, and did great Buddhist things" ("Taizheng", volume 101, 180b).

The name of the king is not included in it. When it came to the "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record", it contained the name of the king, saying: "Bodhidharma, the third son of the king of Nantianzhu Guoxiang, surnamed Kshatriya". Here "Xiangzhi" is the name of the king, or the name of the country cannot be determined, but the text contained in the fifth volume of the "Transmission of the Dharma Authentic Records" clearly and completely states: "The Venerable Bodhidharma, a native of the Southern Tianzhu country, has the surname Kshatriya, and his first name is ...... The father said that Xiangzhi, the king of the kingdom, and Daruma was the third son of the king" (Taisho, vol. 102, 739). The third page of the Japanese Ui Boshou's "Research on the History of Zen Buddhism" quotes "A Brief Identification of the Four Elements of Mahayana Humanity: Disciple Tan Lin Preface": "The master, a native of Tianzhu in the Southern Western Regions, is the third son of the Great Brahmin King." In ancient India, the four castes were clearly divided, only the Kshatriya ruled the country, and the Brahmins were only in charge of sacrifices, not to mention how could the great Brahmins be called kings?

The origin of the above-mentioned Bodhidharma, the earliest historical data says: "Persian people", and Daoxuan's "Continuation of the Biography of High Monks" after the books are all called: "Nantianzhu people". There are many legends, and there are many different ones. If they are called "Persians", they are not "Southern Tianzhu Brahmins"; If it is a "Brahmin species", it is impossible to be called a "prince of incense"; The prince is a "Kshatriya" and cannot be a "Brahmin". All these sayings were originally called: "Hu people", and later called: "prince". (Luo Xianglin's "Cultural History of the Tang Dynasty") "Old Tang Dynasty Book: Monk Shenxiu Biography and Evidence" said: "After Bodhidharma, he was called 'blue-eyed Hu monk', and the author said: 'Persian Hu people' is more credible." He is based on: "Feng Yingliu's "Su Poetry Notes", Volume 7 'Gift to Tianzhu Debate Poetry', under the sentence 'Blue Eyes Shine on the Valley', Feng Note quotes Song Shigu's Note, saying: "The Biography of the High Monk", Master Bodhidharma, cyanotic eyes, later known as the blue-eyed Hu monk'.

Youyun: 'Durian case, see also "Ancestral Garden". According to the "Ancestral Garden", Song Shi Shanqing edited (the first volume of the eighteenth set of the second part of the Japanese "Continuation of the Tibetan Sutra"), which is the Song Shigu to Bodhidharma as the "blue-eyed monk". Whether the Indians in the Tang Dynasty were blue-eyed is not available today, but the Persians are still blue-eyed. When Yang Jie's book "The Legend of Garan", it was not far from the Bodhidharma people, and the "Persian Hu people" recorded were close to reality compared with the later theories, and the Song people called the "blue-eyed Hu monks" also secretly coincided with the Persian race, so it was said that Bodhidharma was a Persian Hu people. The author Wenzhi thinks it is credible. I want to talk with more like-minded people about "The Sanction System of Glory of Kings", " ", talk about life, and find a confidant~