At least in theory, it was no longer necessary to study the scriptures.

One of the Chan School's novel traits was the belief that the truth revealed by the Buddha could be directly transmitted from master to disciple. The eighth century witnessed the flowering of a new school of Chinese Buddhism. The thought that legitimization has to be based on tracing one's lineage to Bodhidharma is based in Chan (Zen) Buddhism as such: On Zen Buddhism, Buddha, and the Shaoilin monastery This mixes religious aspects of trying to found legitimization on lineage with martial traditions of questionable historical lineage. The main point is that is only in modern times (17th century and later) that stories were made up to provide a unity of religion and martial arts that provided further credibility and myth to the alleged superiority of (Shaolin-)Kung Fu. Has likely been the source of their ongoing appeal. Perfectly harmonious mythological structure, the flawless symmetry of which Song, an вЂњInternalвЂќ school of fighting was ascribed to a Daoist recluse who supposedly hid on the holy Mt. Were attributed to a Buddhist master who reputedly resided on the sacred Mt. The legend of the Buddhist saint evolved in conjunction Gradually accepted a legend that had originated outside the monastery according to which their fighting techniques had been invented by the Chan patriarch Bodhidharma. The seventeenth-century transformation of bare-handed fighting was accompanied by the emergence of a novel martial arts mythology. It basically debunks this (with reference to studies and historical sources) as a myth that had been raised as late as the 17th century and later. In Meir Shahar's The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts, there is a whole chapter (number six) dedicated to that topic. NO, or at least not until about 900 years after both Buddhabhadra and Bodhidharma died.

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