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  • Padmasambhava
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Praying Priest
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Travel Shrine
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Standing Buddha
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Hotei
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Six Persimmons
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Stupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Monk
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Stupa
  • Standing Tara
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Gazelle
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Budai
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Four Excursions
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha

Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha

The comparatively small size of this figure of Buddha Shakyamuni suggests that it used to be kept in a box-shaped shrine on a home altar. 

The strong physical presence, the natural drape of the robe, and the realistic clothing details are typical features of Japanese sculpture in the late 13th century and lend this Buddha a naturalistic appearance.

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