An auspicious date -- Guangzhou -- Hualin Temple -- The layout of a traditional Chinese temple -- Grand Buddha Temple -- Guangxiao Temple -- Another visit to Hualin Temple -- Traveling north -- Zen at war -- The platform Sutra of the Sixth Ancestor -- Nanhua Temple : the Sixth Ancestor Huineng's dharma seat -- Yunmen Temple -- Danxia Mountain -- Separate Transmission Temple -- Nanchang City -- Toumin Temple -- The trip to Baizhang Temple -- Baizhang Temple -- Jiujiang City -- Up or down the Yang-tse River? -- Meeting Gunabhadra? -- Laozu Si, the Old Ancestor's Temple -- Nanjing City -- Emperor Wu and Imperial-Way Buddhism -- Tianchang City and Bodhidharma's True Victory Temple -- Linggu Temple on Bell Mountain -- Emperor Wu, the Chakravartin King and Bodhisattva Emperor -- Emperor Wu and his family -- Emperor Wu and the temples of Bell Mountain -- Mufu Mountains and Bodhidharma's Nanjing Cave -- The fusing of Confucianism and Buddhism under Emperor Wu -- The Tai Cheng Palace and Hualin Garden -- The poem by Crown Prince Zhao Ming (Xiao Tong) -- Stone Fortress and Refreshing Mountain -- Dingshan Temple -- Changlu Temple -- Train to Wuhan -- Xiangfan City -- Mount Song and Shaolin Temple -- Shaolin Temple -- Bodhidharma's Cave -- Huishan Temple -- Ordination platforms : the battle ground between Imperial and Bodhidharma Zen? -- The temples of Luoyang -- Empty Appearance Temple -- Bodhidharma's memorial stele : written by Emperor Wu? -- Bodhidharma memorial ceremony -- Train to Shanghai -- Bodhidharma's fate -- Epilogue -- Was Japan to blame?