Bodhidharma the legend who came to china teaching martial arts and dhyan budhism,he was a perfect physician and his knowledge in ayurvedic treatment was well known,in one account it states that damo went to china to cure chickenpox viruses and block its entrance to bharatham.His death is still a dispute thing,some account states that, when damo declared to go back to india the chinese of that village poisoned him through his food.The most wondering thing damo knew about this poisoning he didnt utter a word about it but he blessed people of that village for a prosperous life..still his birth and origin is a controversial thing, some saying he was a persian, another account he was a brahmin guru from south india, another he was a son of pallava king…stories whatever, he was a real legend.

I have never heard of him
Bodhidharma the legend who came to china teaching martial arts and dhyan budhism,he was a perfect physician and his knowledge in ayurvedic treatment was well known,in one account it states that damo went to china to cure chickenpox viruses and block its entrance to bharatham.His death is still a dispute thing,some account states that, when damo declared to go back to india the chinese of that village poisoned him through his food.The most wondering thing damo knew about this poisoning he didnt utter a word about it but he blessed people of that village for a prosperous life..still his birth and origin is a controversial thing, some saying he was a persian, another account he was a brahmin guru from south india, another he was a son of pallava king…stories whatever, he was a real legend.
i like his teachings. but i think that he is against siddhartha guantanamo bey’s teachings. i think he was trying to understand what went wrong with people who went into buddhism, and what was strange about the buddhist masters.
i read somewhere that he thought that the father buddha sid was a sado-masochistic psychopath who has been reincarnating for more than tens of thousands of years and is actually a reincarnation of akhenaten, who started monotheistic religion in old egypt.
so i think he is the enemy of what is actually the real secret heart of true buddhism – fascist dictatorship – which is why they threaten to cut his head off all the time.
My intellectual human knowledge of Bodhidharma is nil, and I think I’ll let it stay that way.
Why is the question directed to atheists only.