(person) by Glowing Fish Sat Sep 29 2001 at 19:16:54

The first ancestor is Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Buddhism to make the journey from India to China.

Although he is referred to as such in Chinese texts, in India he is simply the 28th patriarch.

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