Very little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is available, and subsequent accounts became layered with legend, but most accounts agree that he was South Indian Tamilian and was a Pallava prince from the kingdom of Kanchipuram, the third son of King Sugandha. Bodhidharma left the kingdom after becoming a Buddhist monk and travelled to Southern China. Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self – André van der Braak
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Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1987), "The Sound of the One Hand", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 107 (1), Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 107, No. 1: 125–126, doi:10.2307/602960, JSTOR602960
