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Art

  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Gazelle
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Praying Priest
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bodhidharma
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Stupa
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Standing Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Budai
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Hotei
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Stupa
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Head of a Monk
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
Leaving for Homelessness

Leaving for Homelessness

This relief depicts Prince Siddhartha’s flight from his father’s palace.

Having witnessed human suffering on four excursions, the prince decided to abandon his home and family and go in search of religious fulfilment. His royal parents would never have supported such an endeavour, so he had his horse saddled in the dead of night, ready for departure. Meanwhile, the gods had made the entire town fall into a deep sleep. In order not to awake anyone in the palace, heavenly beings lifted up the horse's hooves from the ground. 

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