Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma (Sanskrit: बोधिधमृ;

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Chinese 菩提達摩,

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pinyin P?t?d?m? or simply D?m?; Wade-Giles

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Tamo; Japanese ダルマ,

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Daruma, Vietnamese: B?-??-??t-ma), also known as the Tripitaka Dharma Master,

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was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk.

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Bodhidharma is traditionally held in Shaolin mythology to be the founder of the Chan school of Buddhism (known in Japan and the West as Zen),

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and the Shaolin school of Chinese martial arts.

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Pinyin: Pinyin (??, p?ny?n) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to H?ny? P?ny?n (????, literal meaning: "Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcripti...

Wade-Giles: Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on the form of Mandarin used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles's C...

Daruma: Daruma may refer to:...