Bodhidharma Day
Now that it is after midnight, it is now Bodhidharma Day. Since most people don't know Zen Buddhism very well let alone Bodhidharma I thought I'd put some information up for everybody.
Bodhidharma is the founder of Zen Buddhism and today is the day when Zen Buddhists around the world honour him. After I do various things I have to get done at the university, I plan to spend the rest of the day reading and meditating on his chosen sutra the Lankavatara Sutra.
The icon for this post is a cropped and scaled version of a woodblock print of Bodhidharma by Yoshitoshi in 1887.
I think that this is a good time to mention that my standard home page for my browsers is set to Daily Zen mostly to get my Zen poem/quote of the day but occasionally to read their Zen journals.
Bodhidharma is the founder of Zen Buddhism and today is the day when Zen Buddhists around the world honour him. After I do various things I have to get done at the university, I plan to spend the rest of the day reading and meditating on his chosen sutra the Lankavatara Sutra.
The icon for this post is a cropped and scaled version of a woodblock print of Bodhidharma by Yoshitoshi in 1887.
I think that this is a good time to mention that my standard home page for my browsers is set to Daily Zen mostly to get my Zen poem/quote of the day but occasionally to read their Zen journals.