Bodhidharma sat in silence, facing the wall.A monk named Huike came to him again and again, asking for instruction. But Bodhidharma...

In a Chan monastery, it was once tradition for students to take a solemn vow:Even if their master were to kill them one day, they would...

A farmer came to a venerable Tendai priest and asked him to recite sutras for his wife, who was lying on her deathbed. When the...