He spent nine years contemplating a cave wall and taught that good deeds do not help towards salvation, as he explained in his famous interview with the Emperor Wu.
One story claims that the first tea plant sprang from where his eyelids fell after he cut them off as penance for falling asleep during meditation. He spent nine years contemplating a cave wall and taught that good deeds do not help towards salvation, as he explained in his famous interview with the Emperor Wu. FTP, name this twenty-seventh successor of the Buddha and first patriarch of the Dhyana sect, a.k.a. Zen.
One story claims that the first tea plant sprang from where his eyelids fell after he cut them off as penance for falling asleep during meditation.
{Bodhidharma} or {Ta-Mo} or {Daruma}