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Bodhidharma Cave

Bodhidharma Cave, approximately 7 meters deep and 3 meters wide, is a natural cave on the upper part of the middle peaks of Wurongsfeng peaks behind Shaolin temple. It has been said that the founder of Zen sect Bodhidharma had been sitting and faced the walls inside the cave for as long as nine years, for which reason people of later generations have call the cave as Nine year meditation place of the founder of Zen.