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  Bodhidharma

 

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The Buddhist monk Bodhidharma while carrying his stick with a single shoe over his shoulder.

 

This depiction is a reference to his appearance to an ambassador of the northern Wei Dynasty, three years after his death, and after which his grave was exhumed and found to contain a single shoe.