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entry. He then resided in a nearby cave, where he meditated in front of the cave wall for nine years, without eating or drinking.
Upon the completion of the wall-gazing meditation, he was admitted into the Shaolin Temple.

Compare a related celadon jade boulder with a similarly depicted Bodhidharma gazing into a grotto wall in meditation, inscribed to
the back with an imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor, included in the National Palace Museum exhibition The Refined Taste of
the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1997, cat. no.
39. The depiction of Buddhist monks in a mountain grotto is an extremely popular subject in Chinese art, and may have derived
from a woodblock print of this theme in the eighteenth-century catalogue, Guyu tupu, attributed to the Southern Song period. A
large number of such carvings were made during the Qianlong period; for example, see a white jade luohan boulder sold at
Christie's London, 15th May 2018, lot 94.

本山子刻畫達摩面壁之典故。菩提達摩，為大乘佛教中國禪宗之祖。菩提達摩出生地尚未祥切，或為中亞及西亞一帶。據傳，達摩入東土
傳佛，於少林寺附近石洞中面壁九年不飲不食，修成正理，後方入寺。

參考一相類青玉山子，雕達摩面壁圖，背面岩壁陰刻填金隸書清高宗御製文，錄台北國立故宮博物院展覽《宮廷之雅•清代仿古及畫意玉
器特展圖錄》，國立故宮博物院，台北，1997年，編號39。佛教人物玉山屬於中國藝術常見題材，或受清中期出版的宋本《古玉圖譜》影
響。乾隆一朝可見大量相類玉山，如一白玉例，售倫敦佳士得2018年5月15日，編號94。

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