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  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Six Persimmons
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monk
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Hotei
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Gazelle
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Travel Shrine
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Monk
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Bodhidharma
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Budai
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Four Excursions
  • Praying Priest
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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