"Bodhidharma (known in Japan as Daruma) is the semi-legendary First Patriarch of Zen, who came to China from India in the sixth century AD. Traditionally he had a fierce gaze and was uncompromising in is teaching. It is related in China that he sat facing a wall for nine years in meditation.
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Finding himself constantly overcome by sleep, he pulled off his eyeslashes and threw them to the ground, where they sprang up as the first tea plants. Monks afterwards used less drastic means for keepink awake!"



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Anne Bancroft, Op.cit, p.59.

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