Patriarch Bodhidharma
Comes from the West to China
达摩祖师 西来震旦
Bodhidharma--"Bodhi" meaning enlightened and "Dharma" meaning the teachings--was the Twenty-Eighth Patriarch in India. Why didn't he stay in India and be a Patriarch there? Why did he go to China? Well, previously Shakyamuni Buddha made a prediction that from the Twenty-eighth Patriarch on, the Great Vehicle teaching should go to China.
菩提达摩,菩提是觉,达摩是法。他是印度第二十八代祖师,可是他为什么不在那儿做祖师,而跑到中国来?因为以前佛陀曾经说过,到第二十八代的时候,大乘佛法应该传到震旦,震旦就是中国。
Thus it happened that Patriarch Bodhidharma sailed from India to China.
所以达摩祖师就由印度坐船到中国来了。