One text claims this figure was poisoned six times, and on the last time, he let himself be buried, only to return holding one shoe in his hand. In Japan, this figure is depicted as a hollow red doll with blanked eyes, one of which gets filled when setting a goal, and the other of which is filled after succeeding in that goal. He told his best student that he had attained his "marrow," which was deeper than the bones, flesh, or skin attained by o
One text claims this figure was poisoned six times, and on the last time, he let himself be buried, only to return holding one shoe in his hand. In Japan, this figure is depicted as a hollow red doll with blanked eyes, one of which gets filled when setting a goal, and the other of which is filled after succeeding in that goal. He told his best student that he had attained his "marrow," which was deeper than the bones, flesh, or skin attained by other disciples. That student, Huike [hway-kuh] spent weeks in the snow begging to be his disciple, and was finally accepted after he cut off his left arm. The Song of Enlightenment says this man was 28th in a line beginning with Mahakasyapa, who smiled in response to Shakyamuni picking up a white lotus flower. The tea plant sprang from his eyelids after he cut them off to avoid sleeping while staring at a wall for 9 years, a practice later known as zazen. For 10 points, name this so-called "First Patriarch of Chan," an Indian-born monk who spread Zen Buddhism to China.