After accepting Hui-k'o as his disciple Bodhidharma spent three more years facing the cliff before continuing his preaching, a mission he performed tirelessly until his decease in A.D. 536.
在收慧可為徒後，達摩又面壁了三年，接著才開始全力授徒佈法。直到他在梁武帝大同二年（西元五百三十六年）圓寂，宏揚佛法不懈。