Career
Yang wrote "The Monasteries of Luoyang" (Chinese: 洛陽伽藍記. Pinyin: Luòyáng Qiélánjì. Wade–Giles: Luo-yang Chia-lan ji) in 547.
Seeing the golden disks at the top of the monastery"s stupa reflecting in the sun, the rays of light illuminating the surface of the clouds, the jewel-bells on the stupa blowing in the wind, the echoes reverberating beyond the heavens, Bodhidharma sang its praises.
He exclaimed: "Truly this is the work of spirits." He said: "I am 150 years old, and I have passed through numerous countries. There is virtually no country I have not visited.
But even in India there is nothing comparable to the pure beauty of this monastery..
Hsiu-Fan Monastery had a statue of a fierce thunderbolt bearer guarding the gate.
Pigeons and doves would neither fly through the gate nor roost upon lieutenant
Bodhidharma said: "That catches its true character!".
