1, one shoe in the body, one shoe in the tomb, in order to make people believe it, but also to leave Zen here.
2. Going westward is to guide all beings to live in the western paradise, or to live in the pure land of Buddhism. It is said that in the first year of Yuanxiang, on the way back from the Western Regions, the envoys of the Eastern Wei Dynasty met Master Dharma with a stick and returned to the Western Regions, and immediately reported to the emperor. When the emperor heard about it, he ordered the excavation of the Dharma Tomb, only to find that the master had become a Buddha, so he renamed Ding Lin Temple "Empty Temple".
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Three years later, Wei sent Song Yun to the Western Regions to meet the founder of Dharma in the Jungle Temple. He was walking alone with a shoe in his hand. Song Yun then asked where Father Dharma was going, and Dharma said, "Go to the Western Heaven." He said to Song Yun, "Your Lord is world-weary." Song Yunwen was at a loss and didn't know what it meant. Don't go east.
After returning to the Central Plains, Wei Mingdi had passed away, and he didn't know the significance of the founder of Dharma, while the then reigning Emperor Wei Xiao Zhuang. Song Yun reported to Wei Xiao Zhuang that he met the founder of Dharma in Jungle Temple. Emperor Xiao Zhuang of Wei ordered the Fata Temple to be opened. When he opened it, it was empty, with only one shoe left. He raised his hand in amazement. Emperor Xiao Zhuang of Wei wrote a letter to Shaolin Temple to get back the shoes for support.
In the 15th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (727), the shoes of the founder of Dharma were stolen by believers to Huayan Temple in Wutai Mountain, and then stolen, and their whereabouts were unknown.