元 李堯夫 蘆葉達摩圖 軸, Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi River on a reed, Li Yaofu, before 1317

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元 李堯夫 蘆葉達摩圖 軸, Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi River on a reed, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), before 1317, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 33 3/4 × 13 5/16 in. ( × cm), Paintings, Li Yaofu (Chinese, active ca. 1300), Bodhidharma was the legendary Indian patriarch who brought Chan Buddhism to China. After an unsuccessful audience with the Chinese emperor Liang Wudi (r. 502–49), Bodhidharma “broke off a reed, crossed the Yangzi River, and proceeded to the Shaolin Temple on Mount Song in Henan Province

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