Patriarch Bodhidharma

　　Comes from the West to China

　　達摩祖師　西來震旦

　　Bodhidharma--"Bodhi" meaning enlightened and "Dharma" meaning the teachings--was the Twenty-Eighth Patriarch in India. Why didn”t he stay in India and be a Patriarch there

　　 Why did he go to China

　　 Well, previously Shakyamuni Buddha made a prediction that from the Twenty-eighth Patriarch on, the Great Vehicle teaching should go to China.

　　菩提達摩，菩提是覺，達摩是法。他是印度第二十八代祖師，可是他爲什麼不在那兒做祖師，而跑到中國來？因爲以前佛陀曾經說過，到第二十八代的時候，大乘佛法應該傳到震旦，震旦就是中國。

　　Thus it happened that Patriarch Bodhidharma sailed from India to China.

　　所以達摩祖師就由印度坐船到中國來了。