The Chinese term Ch'an (Japanese reading: Zen) or Ch'an-ra is a phonetic
rendering of the Sanskrit Dhyana, which is usually translated in English
as Meditation. The traditional account of the origin of the Ch'an or Zen
school is that the Buddha, in addition to his Scriptures, possessed an
esoteric teaching that was transmitted independently of written texts.
This teaching he transmitted personally to one of his disciples, who in
turn transmitted it to his own disciple. In this way, it was handed down
until it reached Bodhidharma, who is supposed to have been the
twentyeighth Patriarch in India, and who came to China some time between
520 and 526, where he became the first Tsu (Patriarch, literally,
Ancestor) of the Ch'an school in China.
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