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Art

  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

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 Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

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

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Praying Priest
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Bodhidharma
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Padmasambhava
  • Six Persimmons
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Hotei
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Standing Tara
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Gazelle
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Standing Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Stupa
  • Travel Shrine
  • Budai
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
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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