Bodhidharma Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Bodhidharma? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Bodhidharma from Buddhism and what is the personality traits.
ISTP (8w9)
Bodhidharma personality type is ISTP, but with the addition of an extra function called Te. Te is the auxiliary function of ISTP and is used for perceiving the environment via the senses. Te perceives the environment via the five senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Te then compares this information to sensory data to make a judgement.
For example, if you are walking down the street and look at a flower, you will see a flower. If you hear a bird singing then you will hear a bird. If you smell fresh cut grass then you will smell fresh cut grass. If you touch a tree trunk then you will feel the hardness of the tree trunk. If you taste something sour then you will taste something sour and so on.
Te is used to compare the information provided by the senses with information that has been stored in memory. This process is called inference and it is part of what makes us human beings. We use our senses to infer what is going on in our environment and this involves making connections between information that we have stored in memory and the information that we are currently experiencing in the environment.
Te is also used to infer when to act.
Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin kungfu. He is known as Dámó in China and as Daruma in Japan. His name means "dharma of awakening (bodhi)" in Sanskrit.[1]
