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Bodhidharma topic overview

The analysis highlights Culture, Works and Legacy as prominent areas in the source structure around Bodhidharma. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics: 146
Source areas: 9
Connected nodes: 156
Extracted relationships: 258
Related term clusters: 34
Bridge connections: 156

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 51 topics

Legends about Bodhidharma · 23 topics

Cultural legacy · 16 topics

Practice and teaching · 12 topics

Modern scholarship · 11 topics

Names · 10 topics

Biography · 9 topics

Attributed works · 8 topics

Lineage · 7 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Bodhidharma Names (details) Known in English: Bodhidharma Bengali: বোধিধর্ম Burmese: ဗောဓိဓမ္မ Chinese abbreviation: 達摩 Hanyu Pinyin: Pútídámó Hindi: बोधिधर्म Hokkien: Tatmo Indonesian: Budhi Darma Japanese: 達磨 Daruma Kannada: ಬೋಧಿ ಧರ್ಮ Khmer: ពោធិធម៌ Poŭthĭthôrm Korean: 달마 Dalma Malay: Dharuma Malayalam: ബോധിധർമ്മൻ Bodhidharman Odia: ବୋଧିଧର୍ମ Bodhidharma Nepali: बोधि धर्म Persian: بودی‌دارما Sanskrit: बोधिधर्म Simplified Chinese: 菩提达摩 Sinhala: බෝධිධර්ම Tagalog: Dharāma Tamil: போதிதருமன் Bhodhidharman Telugu: బోధిధర్మ Thai: ตั๊กม๊อ Takmoh Tibetan: Dharmottāra Traditional Chinese: 菩提達摩 Vietnamese: Bồ-đề-đạt-ma Wade–Giles: P'u-t'i-ta-mo: Known in English:
Religion: Buddhism
School: Chan
Successor: Huike
Title: Chanshi 1st Chan Patriarch

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Bodhidharma

7Bhikkhu · Chan Buddhism · China

4Dharma · Bodhi · Sanskrit

8Western Regions · Xinjiang · Central Asia

16Liu Song dynasty · Liang dynasty · Northern Wei

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Biography

Practice and teaching

Lineage

Modern scholarship

Cultural legacy

Attributed works

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Bodhidharma connects Entity context

The extracted context around Bodhidharma shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Bodhidharma → According, Based, Bodhidharma's, Brahman, Brahmans, Chinese, Daoxuan, Description, Dumoulin, Given, India, Kanchi, Kanchipuram, Kang-zhi, Kingdom, Lo-yang, Pallava, Persian, South Indian Brahman, Tamil Nadu Another extracted example is Bodhidharma → According, Arnis, Bali, China, Dampa Sangye, In Tagalog, Indian, Indonesia, Jambudvipa, Java, Luzon, Luzon Island, Mahayana, Malay, Malaysia, Nanyue, Palawan, Palembang, Passing, Philippines. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Top relations

related to Origins and place of birth · 25

Bodhidharma → According, Based, Bodhidharma's, Brahman, Brahmans, Chinese, Daoxuan, Description, Dumoulin, Given, India, Kanchi, Kanchipuram, Kang-zhi, Kingdom, Lo-yang, Pallava, Persian, South Indian Brahman, Tamil Nadu

related to Travels in Southeast Asia · 24

Bodhidharma → According, Arnis, Bali, China, Dampa Sangye, In Tagalog, Indian, Indonesia, Jambudvipa, Java, Luzon, Luzon Island, Mahayana, Malay, Malaysia, Nanyue, Palawan, Palembang, Passing, Philippines

related to Attributed works · 22

Bodhidharma → According, Bodhidharma Anthology, Bodhidharma's, Chan, Dharma, Dhyana Master Bodhidharma, Dunhuang, Er, Four Practices, Huike, Japanese, McRae, Modern, Outline, Practice, Putidamo, Tianzhu, Treatise, Two Entrances, Unfortunately

related to Principal sources · 21

Bodhidharma → According, Altishahr, BCE, Brahmin, CE, Central Asia, China, Chinese, Indian, Journey, Later, Pallavas, Persian Central Asian, Sometimes, South Indian, Tarim Basin, The Western Regions, West, Western Regions, Xinjiang

related to Shaolin boxing · 15

Bodhidharma → According, Buddhism, Daoist, Lin Boyuan, Martial, Matsuda Ryuchi, Muscle Change Classic, Shaolin Temple, Shaolin-monks, Sinews Transformation's Classic, Tang Hao, Vajrapani, Xu Zhen, Yi Jin Jing, Yijin Jing

related to Continuous lineage from Gautama Buddha · 12

Bodhidharma → According, Buddha, Chan, Chan Buddhism, Enlightenment, Eventually, Gautama Buddha, Mahākāśyapa, Patriarch, Song, Yongjia Xuanjue, Zhèngdào

related to Popular traditions · 12

Bodhidharma → An Indian, Bodhidharma's, Conversely, Japanese, Kanchipuram, Pallava, Persian, Several, South Indian, South Indian Tamil, Southeast Asian, The Tibetan

related to The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra · 12

Bodhidharma → Another, Bodhidharma's, Chinese, Daoxuan, Disciples, Huike, Jingjue, Jingjue's, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Léngqié Shīzī Jì, Masters, Record

related to Appearance after his death · 11

Bodhidharma → Ambassador Song Yun, At Shaolin Monastery, Bodhidharma's, Carrying, Don't, Master, Pamir Mountains, Shaolin, Song, Three, Wei

related to Construction of lineages · 11

Bodhidharma → Chan, Continued Biographies, Daoyu, Dazu Huike, Eminent Monks, Faru, Four Practices, Hongren, Long Scroll, Treatise, Two Entrances

Important terminology

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Important terminology

bodhidharma's chinese according chan also china indian huike said text buddhism ce shaolin dharma account meditation two monks years later

Bodhidharma relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 258 structured relationships around Bodhidharma. Examples in this analysis include Bodhidharma → Bodhidharma Names (details) Known in English: Bodhidharma Bengali: বোধিধর্ম Burmese: ဗောဓိဓမ္မ Chinese abbreviation: 達摩 Hanyu Pinyin: Pútídámó Hindi: बोधिधर्म Hokkien: Tatmo Indonesian: Budhi Darma Japanese: 達磨 Daruma Kannada: ಬೋಧಿ ಧರ್ಮ Khmer: ពោធិធម៌ Poŭthĭthôrm Korean: 달마 Dalma Malay: Dharuma Malayalam: ബോധിധർമ്മൻ Bodhidharman Odia: ବୋଧିଧର୍ମ Bodhidharma Nepali: बोधि धर्म Persian: بودی‌دارما Sanskrit: बोधिधर्म Simplified Chinese: 菩提达摩 Sinhala: බෝධිධර්ම Tagalog: Dharāma Tamil: போதிதருமன் Bhodhidharman Telugu: బోధిధర్మ Thai: ตั๊กม๊อ Takmoh Tibetan: Dharmottāra Traditional Chinese: 菩提達摩 Vietnamese: Bồ-đề-đạt-ma Wade–Giles: P'u-t'i-ta-mo → Known in English: and Bodhidharma → Religion → Buddhism. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Bodhidharma	Bodhidharma Names (details) Known in English: Bodhidharma Bengali: বোধিধর্ম Burmese: ဗောဓိဓမ္မ Chinese abbreviation: 達摩 Hanyu Pinyin: Pútídámó Hindi: बोधिधर्म Hokkien: Tatmo Indonesian: Budhi Darma Japanese: 達磨 Daruma Kannada: ಬೋಧಿ ಧರ್ಮ Khmer: ពោធិធម៌ Poŭthĭthôrm Korean: 달마 Dalma Malay: Dharuma Malayalam: ബോധിധർമ്മൻ Bodhidharman Odia: ବୋଧିଧର୍ମ Bodhidharma Nepali: बोधि धर्म Persian: بودی‌دارما Sanskrit: बोधिधर्म Simplified Chinese: 菩提达摩 Sinhala: බෝධිධර්ම Tagalog: Dharāma Tamil: போதிதருமன் Bhodhidharman Telugu: బోధిధర్మ Thai: ตั๊กม๊อ Takmoh Tibetan: Dharmottāra Traditional Chinese: 菩提達摩 Vietnamese: Bồ-đề-đạt-ma Wade–Giles: P'u-t'i-ta-mo	Known in English:	1.00	infobox
Bodhidharma	Religion	Buddhism	1.00	infobox
Bodhidharma	School	Chan	1.00	infobox
Bodhidharma	Successor	Huike	1.00	infobox
Bodhidharma	Title	Chanshi 1st Chan Patriarch	1.00	infobox
Bodhidharma	is a	Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang	0.90	text
Bodhidharma	is a	four-line stanza whose first two verses echo the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra's disdain for words and whose second two verses stress the importance of the insight into reality achieved thr…	0.90	text
Bodhidharma	related to Abode in China	Buswell	0.60	section
Bodhidharma	related to Abode in China	Bodhidharma's	0.60	section
Bodhidharma	related to Abode in China	China	0.60	section
Bodhidharma	related to Abode in China	Broughton	0.60	section
Bodhidharma	related to Abode in China	Luoyang	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Bodhidharma bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Huike, Shaolin and According. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

anthology of the patriarchal hall
- Buddhism
- Years
- Patriarch
- Buddhist
- Four
- Transmission
- Dharma
- Known
- Teaching
- Practice
- Huike
- Monks
Bodhidharma
- Huike
- Shaolin
- According
- Two
- Chan
- Also
- Said
- Anthology
- Attributed
- Song
- Indian
- Chinese
bodhidharma
- Huike
- Shaolin
- According
- Two
- Chan
- Also
- Said
- Anthology
- Attributed
- Song
- Indian
- Chinese
buddhist monk
- Meditation
- Chinese
- Monks
- China
- Anthology
- Four
- Teaching
- Practice
- Buddhism
- Shaolin
- Accounts
- Ce
china
- South
- Bodhidharma's
- Shaolin
- Indian
- Chinese
- Patriarch
- Daoxuan
- Meditation
- Transmission
- Practice
- Sūtra
- Huike
buddhist art
- Meditation
- Chinese
- Monks
- China
- Anthology
- Four
- Teaching
- Practice
- Buddhism
- Shaolin
- Accounts
- Ce
the record of the buddhist monasteries of luoyang
- Meditation
- Chinese
- Monks
- China
- Anthology
- Four
- Teaching
- Practice
- Buddhism
- Shaolin
- Accounts
- Ce
south china
- South
- Bodhidharma's
- Shaolin
- Daoxuan
- Indian
- Chinese
- Patriarch
- Two
- Meditation
- Transmission
- Practice
- Sūtra

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Bodhidharma, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Bodhidharma with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Bodhidharma — Overview · splits 105 ⟂ 52

Bodhidharma — Legends about Bodhidharma · splits 133 ⟂ 24

Bodhidharma — Cultural legacy · splits 140 ⟂ 17

Bodhidharma — Practice and teaching · splits 144 ⟂ 13

Bodhidharma — Modern scholarship · splits 145 ⟂ 12

Bodhidharma — Names · splits 146 ⟂ 11

Bodhidharma — Biography · splits 147 ⟂ 10

Bodhidharma — Attributed works · splits 148 ⟂ 9

Bodhidharma — Lineage · splits 149 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Bodhidharma

Nodes157

Edges156

Triples258

Avg. degree1.99

Density0.012739

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Bodhidharma to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Culture, Works & Legacy, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Bodhidharma · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

Bodhidharma: Culture, Works & Legacy

Bodhidharma topic overview

What this topic covers Research coverage

Key facts & relationships

Start with your topic. Discover where to go next.

Questions to explore

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Overview

Names

Biography

Practice and teaching

Legends about Bodhidharma

Lineage

Modern scholarship

Cultural legacy

Attributed works

For the semantics nerds

Advanced semantic analysis

How Bodhidharma connects Entity context

Bodhidharma

Top relations

Important terminology

Important terminology

Bodhidharma relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

Map overview Semantic statistics

Bodhidharma

Source & methodology