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Ali has asked about Daruma Celebrations in other countries.
Daruma san in this popular form is only known in Japan and Japanese
Communities worldwide.
In China, Korea and other Asian Buddhist countries, he is worshipped
as the founder of Zen Buddhism and has his official festivals at Zen
temples.
To check about China was a little difficult (too many hits at google,
I have to check that more specific again)
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http://www.sotozen-net.or.jp/gyouji/img/darma%5B1%5D.gif
His memorial Birthday (daruma ki Γ£Λα΄χ) is on the 5th of October
according to the old lunar calendar.
http://sped2work.tripod.com/bdharma.html
http://www.geomancy.net/resources/calendar/calendar-minor-
festivals.htm
http://www.sotozen-net.or.jp/gyouji/nentyu/nentyu_105.htm
http://fuken.komazawa.net/~syuukyou/darumaki.htm
http://blogs.dion.ne.jp/kidan4u/archives/109748.html
Daruma and Zen in China
< picture of ippitsu daruma >
http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/~zenbunka/images/daien.jpg
http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/~zenbunka/daruma.htm
The Museum of Zen Culture and History, Komazawa University
http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/~zenbunka/e_index.htm
Questions and Answers about ZEN by Deshimaru sensei
http://www.zen-deshimaru.com/EN/sangha/deshimaru/QR.htm
Bodhidharma worship in China
Zen, Chan in Chinese and Dhyana in Sanskrit, is the most important
and influential sect of the Han Buddhism. It means meditation. This
sect of Mahayana Buddhism aims to transmit the essence of Buddhism.
Zen advocates the ability to achieve enlightenment is inherent within
everyone but lies dormant because of ignorance. It holds that a
sudden breaking through of the boundaries of common, everyday,
logical thought is the right way. Although Bodhidharma was respected
as the founder of Zen Buddhism, it was actually established by
Huineng, successor of Bodhidharma' lineage. Later, it split into 2
sects and 7 subsects, some of which soon were introduced to Japan and
Korea. Now, Zen is still very popular among Buddhism followers.
http://www.warriortours.com/intro/religion_han_buddhism.htm
About Bodhidharma and Buddhism in the History of China
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/welter.html
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http://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/bdharma.gif
With great difficulty the true transmission has been passed down from
Shakyamuni who sat for six years, through Bodhidharma's nine years of
facing the wall, to one-armed Hui-K'o. That fresh blood in the snow
and Shakyamuni's tears of blood are the tradition that has continued
through the tears and toil for Awakening. The tradition has been
conveyed for 28 generations in India, 23 generations in China, and
then passed on to Japan.
http://sped2work.tripod.com/resolve3.html
http://sped2work.tripod.com/bdharma.html
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Weblog about Shaolin,
this might have more, check it out.
Here is their virtual Bodhidharma Altar for worship.
http://www.damo.aboutshaolin.com/altar.html
http://www.aboutshaolin.com/weblog.php
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KOREA
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http://www.kcaf.or.kr/trart/image/1-85.gif
This impressive work embodies the spiritual depth religious meditation
(Zen) with boldly simple brush strokes. The energetic brush catches
the sitter's intensity of mind.
http://www.kcaf.or.kr/trart/e1-85.htm
History of Buddhism in Korea
Cha'an is the Chinese form of the Sanskrit word "Dhyana" (Jhana in
Pali), which is a state of meditative absorption. Although not the
first form of Buddhism to reach Korea, it was this school of Buddhism
which was eventually to become the main Buddhist tradition in Korea
where it became known as Seon, from where it later spread to Japan
where it was known as Zen. Cha'an, the roots of which are found in
the Sattipathhana Sutta, the most important sermon on meditation
preached by the Buddha himself, emphasised realisation by personal
effort rather than reliance on study of the scriptures which are
externally based and related more to the experiences of others.
Read a lot more:
http://www.zip.com.au/~lyallg/Seon.htm
Safekeeping Copy is here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/koreaforum/message/3
Here is another great site with LINKS to many topics of Korean
Buddhism.
This is the part of the Temples
· Buddhapia's Guide to Major Korean Temples
· Haein-sa Monastery (sol.nuri.net, Korea) Haein-sa
(Reflection on a Calm Sea Temple); - Containing informaton on the
Korea Tripitaka (original wooblock and digitized CD-ROM); The Library
(Changgyông-gak). Address: Yongsan-gu Hannam 1-Dong 683-139, Seoul
(post num.140-212), Korea.
· Pulguksa
· Chônggak wôn
· Chôngtosa
· Chikjisa
· Pubjusa
· Hwaômsa [URL presently unknown]
· Pomosa
· Pusôksa [URL presently unknown]
· T'ongdosa [URL presently unknown]
· Samgwangsa [URL presently unknown]
· Sônggwangsa [URL presently unknown]
· Tong Myeong Bul-weon [Pusan]
· Taegaksa
· Paegyangsa (Kobul Chôngnim)
http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/Buddhism-Korean.html#Places
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And another link about Korean Temples, I quote you some of it, check
the rest out yourselves.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/index.html
This is a famous Zen Temple in Korea
Chogyesa Temple is the only major temple within the old city walls of
Seoul. Built in 1910, the temple became the main temple of Korean
Buddhism's Chogye Order in 1936.
In 1954, after the great clean-up movement to rid the country of any
vestiges of the Japanese occupation, the temple came to be called
Chogyesa. This is the name of the mountain on which the Sixth
Patriarch of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism, Huineng (638-713), lived.
Born poor and illiterate, Master Huineng attained enlightenment on
hearing the Diamond Sutra being chanted while selling wood.
Eventually he was recognized by the fifth patriarch and became his
successor.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu5.html
Pomosa stands on Kumjongsan Mountain. The mountain is carefully
described in a Choson Dynasty (1392-1910) geography book as having a
huge rock at the summit, on top of which there is a golden well which
never, ever dries up.
Legend tells that one day a golden fish came from Nirvana and has
lived there ever since, so the temple's name became Where Fish from
Nirvana Play.‘±
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu6.html
Chondungsa is a temple on Kanghwado Island, west of Seoul. It was
well known as the sanctuary to which Korean kings and their courts
fled to take refuge from the numerous Mongol and Chinese invasions.
Chondungsa dates from the time of the 25th Koryo king, Ch'ungyol (r.
1274-1308). The king had two wives. The first wife was Chinese, a
daughter of Kublai Khan. The second was Korean, Queen Chonghwa.
Because Queen Chonghwa was jealous of the favor shown to her Chinese
counterpart, she was imprisoned. In her loneliness, she was drawn to
the temple, then known as Chinjongsa. She offered a beautiful jade
lamp to the temple in 1282 from which the name Temple of the Donated
Lamp or Chondungsa came.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu7.html
Yongjusa is the result of a son's longing for his dead father and a
tribute to filial piety. When the father of King Chongjo (r. 1776-
1800) died, the king could not forget him. Some time passed and then,
one day, he heard a lecture on the Parental Benevolence Sutra, a text
which explains the debt that children have to their parents. He
decided to rebuild Kalyangsa on memory of his father and move his
father's tomb there.
Dragons are auspicious animals with divine properties. Considered a
symbol of regal authority, the dragon was also thought to dispel evil
spirits. Dragons are usually related to heaven and water and are used
in rituals involving rain. Considered protectors, they have always
been seen as important in protecting Korea from invasion and so there
are many legends about sea dragons who defend the peninsula.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu8.html
On either side of the South Han-gang River, the people were being
tyrannized by a dragon-horse who lived on an island in the middle of
the river. Master Naong (1320-1376) put a magical bridle over it and
tamed the wild animal. Therefore the temple came to be called ‘°
Divine Bridle.‘±
Apart from this legend, the founding of the temple seems shrouded in
mystery. One thing is certain, Master Naong definitely had a lot to
do with this temple. He was a remarkable man and his story is woven
into almost every aspect of Shilluksa. Master Naong was a celebrated
Zen master who formed his own school of thought using very dynamic
teaching methods and was also appointed King's Teacher.‘±He lived
most of his life at Shilluksa. At his death, clouds of five colors
covered the mountain and there was rain from a cloudless sky falling
on the temple. When the body was cremated, it yielded innumerable
relics which were enshrined in a special bell-shaped stupa.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu9.html
Shilla Master Chajang (?-?) founded this temple, Calm Moon, on
Odaesan Mountain. There are five plateaus or peaks on Odaesan
Mountain, part of the T'aebaek Mountain Range, on which the principle
Bodhisattvas live. Each abode is marked with a hermitage. In the
middle there is Sajaam, to the east is Kwanumam, to the west is
Sujongam, to the south is Chijangam, and to the north is Mirukam.
There is a story that the two sons of King Shinmun, Poch'on and
Hyomyong, each met 50,000 Bodhisattvas on the five peaks.
It is said that, on this mountain, Master Chajang chanted before a
stone statue of the Bodhisattva beside a pond, hoping to fulfill his
long-cherished wish to see Manjusri Bodhisattva. On the seventh night
of his religious practice he had a dream in which the Buddha gave him
a poem of four lines in Sanskrit. Next day, a monk came and remarked
that the master looked pale and troubled. Master Chajang explained
that he had received a verse he could not understand. The mysterious
monk explain the verse and then told the master to go to Odaesan in
Shilla and that there he would find 10,000 Manjusris. After seven
more days of chanting, a dragon appeared whotold him that the old
monk had been Manjusri and that now hemust go and build a temple to
the Bodhisattva.
http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/eng/temple/korexp/html/bu10.html
and so on, check it out for yourself.
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Picture of Dancing Bodhidharma from Korea
http://www.syzenart.com/images/group-200.jpg
http://www.syzenart.com/dancing.html
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