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Batuo (Fo Tuo, {zh-cp |c=跋陀 |p=Bátuó}}, from Sanskrit Buddhabhadra) was the founder and first patriarch of the ] .
According to Chinese texts such as the Deng Feng County Recording (Deng Feng Xian Zhi), a Buddhist monk (dhyana master) named Batuo went to China to preach Buddhism in AD 464 The Shaolin Temple was built thirty-one years later in AD 495, by the order of emperor Wei Xiao Wen (471–500). The temple originally consisted of a round dome used as a shrine and a platform where Indian and Chinese monks translated Indian Buddhist scriptures into native Chinese languages.
He was the teacher of early Shaolin monks, including Sengchou and Huiguang. Monastery records state Sengchou and Huiguang, both expert in the martial arts, were two of Shaolin's first monks. The Taishō Tripiṭaka documents Sengchou's skill with the tin staff.
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- Kungfu History at EasternMartialArts.com
- Broughton, Jeffrey L. (1999). The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-520-21972-4.
- Canzonieri, Salvatore (1998). "History of Chinese Martial Arts: Jin Dynasty to the Period of Disunity". Han Wei Wushu. 3 (9).
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