Dao Xin (Chinese: 道信， Wade-Giles Tao-hsin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Zen Buddhist Patriarch. Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Events Around this time, the historian Jordanes writes several books. ... Events End of Yazdegard IIIs attempts to drive out the Saracens. ... Bodhidharma, woodcut print by Yoshitoshi, 1887. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...