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Information
The
Monastery
15
China
and
told
his
story,
Bodhidharmaβs
grave
was
promptly
opened.
It
was
found
to
be
empty
except
for
the
other
shoe.
28
The
shoe-holding
Bodhidharma
became
a
standard
motif
in
Chan
art.
Another
thirteenth-century
image
that
became
ubiquitous
showed
him
rid-
ing
a
fragile
stalk
across
the
Yangtze
Riverβs
mighty
waves
(ο¬gure
2).
2ξ
Icons
of
the
Reed-Floating
Bodhidharma
tend
to
portray
the
saint
quite
humor-
ously.
He
sports
a
beard
and
an
earring,
and
the
artist
has
taken
care
to
highlight
his
foreign
features:
the
large
nose
and
bushy
eyebrows.
This
image
betrays
a
common
Chinese
perception
of
the
saint
as
eccentric.
The
pot-bel-
lied
Maitreya
Buddha,
the
divine
clown
Daoji,
and
the
idiosyncratic
arhats
(
luohan
)
are
all
depicted
in
Chinese
art
and
literature
as
holy
fools,
whose
di-
vinity
is
masked
behind
an
eccentric
facade.
30
Fig.
1.
The
Shoe-Hold
ing
Bodhidharma
on
his
way
to
the
West
(120ξ
Shaolin
stele).
Table of contents
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Origins of a Military Tradition (500β900)
- Chapter 1. The Monastery
- Chapter 2. Serving the Emperor
- Part II Systemizing Martial Practice (900β1600)
- Chapter 3. Defending the Nation
- Chapter 4. Staff Legends
- Part III Fist Fighting and Self-Cultivation (1600β1900)
- Chapter 5. Hand Combat
- Chapter 6. Gymnastics
- Chapter 7. Suspect Rebels
- Conclusion: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
- Appendix
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index