A portrait of a man with a beard and a shaved head, wearing traditional clothing, depicted in a watercolor or ink sketch style.

Bodhidharma

Itinerant Buddhist Monk (5th–6th centuries CE)

Founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Bodhidharma traveled to China in the 5th or 6th century CE.

A traditional Asian brush painting of a man with a beard and shaved head, wearing robes, sitting and looking to the side.
Bodhidharma, Founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism

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