Dr. Hu Shih deduced that Bodhidharma must have arrived in China around A.D. 470, and had died by A.D534, under the Eastern Wei dynasty, having spent over 50 years in China.
適之先生推論，達摩應在西元四七○年左右來到中國，死於東魏天平（西元五三四到五三七年）以前。在中國待了五十多年。