Legends of the Martial Arts Masters by Susan Lynn Peterson

Author:Susan Lynn Peterson [Peterson, Susan Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

The Eighteen Hands

Tamo, the one they call the White Buddha, once walked all the way from India to China to visit the Chinese emperor and the Buddhist temples there. With him he brought a new way of living called Zen. Eventually, Zen would reach every corner of China and then find its way to Japan. But when Tamo first arrived in China, Zen simply made him an outcast.

It seems that when Tamo arrived at the royal palace, the emperor bragged to him about the monasteries he had built, about the scrolls his monks had translated from Sanskrit to Chinese, and about the way he was bringing Buddhism to the people. Tamo, never one to mince words, told the emperor that all these good efforts would not earn him Nirvana. He tried to tell the emperor about Zen. But the emperor branded Tamo a troublemaker and kicked him out of his palace.

Tamo traveled for a while, then arrived at the gate of a monastery. The abbot of the monastery had already been warned by imperial messengers that Tamo might show up. So when Tamo knocked at the gate, the abbot turned him away. Tamo was not upset. He simply climbed the hill outside the monastery and sat down in a cave to meditate.

In the morning, when the light was right, the monks could see him there from the window of their scriptorium, the place where they translated and copied Sanskrit scrolls. Never moving, he sat, his eyes focused on a single place on the cave wall.

Eventually, the abbot sent a young monk to the cave with food. When he returned, the monk said that he could feel the force from Tamo’s eyes as it bounced off the cave walls. In fact, the monk reported, if you looked carefully, you could see where Tamo’s gaze had

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