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The Origin of the Iconography of Bodhidharma’s Crossing on a Reed

Summary/Abstract: The iconography of Bodhidharma, the founder of Chan Buddhism shows strongrelationship with representations of Daoist immortals and Buddhist arhats, aconnection which can be clearly seen in the development and misinterpretationof several images from these genres into new iconographies. This paper highlights this phenomenon by means of an exploration of one specific episode ofthe Bodhidharma-legend: the “Crossing on a Reed”. Through this episode, andby contrasting the early written sources with the pictorial representations fromearliest times, we can see how representations other than the ones referred toin textual sources can appear and influence later textual sources, as well assubsequent visual representations.

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