INT Aditya Birla Centre for Performing Art Productions brings to you ZEN KATHA. A fascinating story of Bodhidharma, a Prince from the ancient kingdom of Kanchi, who was the true founder of Zen and the Martial Arts, as we know them today.

Written by the well known narrator, playwright and documentary film maker Partap Sharma, the play is a dramatic piece that explores the journey of Boddhidharma, both on the physical and metaphysical plane. Opening in the kingdom of Kanchi in India in the 6th Century, it moves to the austere world of monks and monasteries in China, tracing intense temporal relationships and equally intense internal evolution, together with the final discovery of an alternative way of being.

The play traces transformation from a Brahmin to a Buddhist monk and finally to the 28th Patriarch, who decides to travel to China with the Buddha's bowl to spread Buddhism                                                                                   

The dramatic encounter with the powerful Chinese Emperor Wu Ti of the Liang dynasty and then moves to the austere world of monks and monasteries in Shaolin, where we finally see the birth of his Zen philosophy and the Martial Arts as they are known today, in popular forms such as Tai Chi and Kung Fu.

Zen Katha is a play that tells an extraordinary man's tale- his intense temporal relationships and inspiring spiritual and physical evolution, culminating with his discovery of an alternative way of being