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Bodhidharma Monk Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. Wikipedia School: Chan Successor: Huike Siblings:  Getsujo Tara, Kudoku Tara Books: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma  

Yi Xing Chinese astronomer Yi Xing, born Zhang Sui was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, mechanical engineer, philosopher, Buddhist monk to the Tang Dynasty.  Hist astronomical celestial globe featured a clockwork escapement mechanism, the first in a long tradition of Chinese astronomical, the first in a long tradition of Chinese astronomical clockworks. Wikipedia Born: 683…