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Daruma carrying one sandal
Sekiri Daruma
靴を持っている達磨さん：隻履達磨
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Here you can see him carrying his sandal and the sutras in his shoulder bag!
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Bodhidharma
Putidamo (chin.), Bodhidaruma (jap.), Indian monk, living i China in VI century and cosiders as foundator of school Ch'an. Halflegendar person and surrounded with many myths. After arriving to China at year 520, he was received by Emperor Wu who had many merrits for Buddhism because of foundating of Buddhist temples and helping to monks.
During talking, emperor asked: which merits do you have? --
Bodhidharma said: "none".
Then the emperor asked:
what is the heart of the Buddhism? He answered:
"Only emptiness -- none sanctity".
After the meeting with emperor, Bodhidharma went to Shaolin monastery, where he spent nine years facing to rock wall. Probably he return to India but before the departure pointed out his successor Huike who is considered as the second patriarch of Ch'an.
The rest is legend in curriculum vitae of Bodhidharma. Therefore this that he swam across the river Yangtse on the leaf of rush, that he invented the tea which grew from his eye-lashes, when he cut them after he fell asleep during the meditation. He discovered the art of fighting Kung-fu. Another version told he was died when he was 150 and he was buried in Mountain Henan. Some his disciple told he met him going with one sandal. When his tomb was dug out, it was found just only one sandal.
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