Buddhism came to China 2,000 years ago. As early as A.D. 65, a community of Buddhist monks was reported living under royal patronage in the northern part of Kiangsu Province, not far from the birthplace of Confucius, and the first monks had probably arrived a hundred years earlier. Since then, tens of thousands of Indian and Central Asian monks have journeyed to China by land and sea, bu mong those who brought the teachings of the Buddha to China, none has had the impact comparable to that of Bodhidarma.
( ''The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma, translated by Red Pine, NORTH POINT PRESS)
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