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  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Standing Tara
  • Padmasambhava
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Hotei
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Stupa
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Six Persimmons
  • Praying Priest
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Gazelle
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Head of a Monk
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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