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Bodhidharma with a Single Shoe

JAPAN; Kamakura period (1185-1333); Ink on silk; 69.5 x 31.4 cm; Masaki Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
This picture illustrates a story about Bodhidharma said to have taken place three years after he passed into parinirvana. Song Yun, a messenger from the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534), was returning from the regions west of China when he encountered Bodhidharma somewhere in the Pamir Mountains, holding one shoe and heading west. Song asked him where he was going and Bodhidharma replied I am going home." Later

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