Didn't Japanese styles come from China? Heck, all >martial arts came from
 India or so the stories say.

The legend says that the first martial arts where brought >from India to 
China by a Bhuddist monk named Bodhidhrama who went when >he heard that 
the Chinese were teaching an inncorrect form of Bhuddism. >It is quite 
likely that he first practiced Kalaripayit or one of it's >forebears. 

  
	The story as I recall is that the monk came teaching the Zen form of 
Budism.  He came to the Shaolin temple and taught the monks but saw that they 
were too out of shape to meditate properly.  So he taught the monks a series of 
exercises based on animal movements and the fighting techniques he had learned 
in his own past.