Written by Lydia
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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 22:10 |
The
story goes that in 495AD, during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen
during the Northern Wei Dynasty, a Buddhist monk named Buddhabhadra
(Ba Tuo) came to China from India. The Emperor liked Buddhabhadra
and offered him support to teach Buddhism at court which he
declined. Instead he was given a piece of land to build a temple on
Mount Song. The temple was named Shaolin, which translates to
‘Little Forest’.
In
520AD, another Buddhist monk travelled across the Himalayan ranges
from India to China known as...
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