Zen began with a quiet landing: one monk in South China, 1,500 years ago.
From India’s Sanskrit-and-Pali world, Bodhidharma crossed the sea, declined an emperor, and walked north.
Destination: Mount Song.
At Shaolin’s cave, nine years of stillness became a method—direct pointing to the mind.
Here, meditation shaped practice, China called it Chan, and the world met Zen.