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@joeblodontchno5309
Kung Fu existed long before there was any Bodhidharma, the person who is rumored to have taught Kung Fu to the Chinese. Let's examine who Bodhidharma was (in China known as Da Mo) was NOT Indian! The only contemporary record about Bodhidharma' origin says that he said he had come from western region. At that time western region was the Chinese name for Central Asia, at the time that region was ruled by the ancient Persian Sasanian Empire period (224 to 651 AD).
The Western Regions was a historical name specified in the Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of Yumen Pass, most often Central Asia or sometimes, more specifically, the easternmost portion of it (e.g. Altishahr or the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang).
Most likely Da Mo was a Tocharian Buddhist monk, because according to description in ancient Chinese records and also legends say that he had red hair and green eyes, those were common natural features in Tocharians, a tribe of Central Asians with European ancestry. Tocharians had been living in Central Asia long before Persia came to power.
The earliest text mentioning Bodhidharma is The Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang (Chinese: 洛陽伽藍記😊) which was compiled in 547 by Yang Xuanzhi (楊衒之), a writer and translator of Mahayana sutras into Chinese. Yang gave the following account:
At that time there was a monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian. He traveled from the wild borderlands to China.
China recently discovered some mummies with European features with red hair and pale color skin, their clothing don't resemble those of Chinese or Indian. Those mummies are most likely of Tocharians who are known to travelled between Central Asia and China, very likely they were the first people started the Silk Roads and among the Central Asians who first brought Buddhism from Gandhara to China.
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