A Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th/6th century CE. These sources, given in various translations, vary on their account of Bodhidharma being either:
- A monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian
- A South Indian of the Western Region. He was the third son of a great Indian king
- Who came from South India in the Western Regions, the third son of a great Brahman king
- Of South Indian Brahman stock c.q. a Brahman monk from South India