| Daruma dolls are representations of the historical Indian | | | | Shorinji Temple in China. During this time he moved |
| priest Bodhidharma, a sage who traveled throughout | | | | neither his eyes nor his limbs. Legend has it that as a |
| Japan and China in the 5th or 6th century AD. | | | | result of his inactivity Bodhidharma's limbs shriveled and |
| Bodhidharma is credited with establishing Chan | | | | fell off. Another legend relates that angry with the fact |
| Buddhism in China and Zen Buddhism in Japan. Legend | | | | that he had fallen asleep during his meditation, |
| has it that Bodhidharma achieved enlightenment, or | | | | Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids in a fit of anger. It is |
| satori, following seven years of meditation either in a | | | | believed that the severed eyelids fell to the ground and |
| cave or as he was facing the wall of a room at the | | | | sprouted into China's first green tea plants! |