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  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Travel Shrine
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Budai
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Gazelle
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Praying Priest
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Hotei
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Stupa
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Padmasambhava
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Bodhidharma
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Stupa
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha
Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family

Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family

The Buddha – the revered teacher and great role model – sits at the centre of this stela. Two shaven-headed monks stand immediately next to him. The two Pratyekabuddhas who form the next pair have “snail-shell” curls. The last two figures in this row wear the rich jewellery of an Indian prince and can be identified as bodhisattvas. 

These three pairs symbolize the different paths that the Lotus Sutra says can lead to awakening: one followed by a monk in a monastery, one followed by a “private” person like the Pratyekabuddha, and the compassion-filled one followed by the bodhisattva.

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