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Zen began with a quiet landing: one monk in South China, 1,500 years ago.

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From India’s Sanskrit-and-Pali world, Bodhidharma crossed the sea, declined an emperor, and walked north.

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Destination: Mount Song.

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At Shaolin’s cave, nine years of stillness became a method—direct pointing to the mind.

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Here, meditation shaped practice, China called it Chan, and the world met Zen.