Originally Posted by
BlackEChan
LFJ: Who would you recognize as the founder of Zen Buddhism? Or was there one at all? Legends say that Damo, a buddhist monk traveled from India to China to teach Buddhism. After stopping at many places, he stayed at SongShan Mountain where he resided and meditated in a small cave above Shaolin Si for 9 years. When the monks recognized him, he taught them his form of Buddhism, Chan (called Zen by the Japanese) which incorporated meditation.
Supposedly, the monks weren't healthy, so he taught them the yogic exercises, so on and so forth...