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There were two Indian Buddhist masters named Buddhabhadra in China during the 5th century CE. This article is about the Shaolin Abbot.

Buddhabhadra (Chinese: 跋陀; pinyin: Bátuó) was an Indian dhyana master who was the founding abbot of Shao-lin Monastery and the teacher of Seng-ch'ou.

Former Worthies Gather at the Mount Shuang-feng Stūpa and Each Talks of the Dark Principle contains the following reference to him:

Dhyana Master Buddha says: "The extreme principle is wordless. The sagely mind is unimpeded."

According to the Deng Feng County Recording (Deng Feng Xian Zhi), Bátuó came to China in 464 CE and preached Nikaya (小乘) Buddhism for thirty years.

Thirty-one years later, in 495, the Shaolin Monastery was built by the order of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei for Batuo's preaching. There is also no record of how or when Batuo died.

Another of Bátuó's students was Hui Guang.

Notes

1. Broughton, Jeffrey L. (1999). The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-520-21972-4.
2. Broughton 1999:108

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