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  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Budai
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Gazelle
  • Travel Shrine
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Stupa
  • Standing Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Bodhidharma
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Padmasambhava
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Four Excursions
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Six Persimmons
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation

The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation

The Bodhisattva of Compassion is known in China as Guanyin. The name, a translation from Sanskrit, means “He who hears the world’s cries for help”.

In China, figures of the Bodhisattva of Compassion usually have a feminine appearance. However, their exposed chest and bare feet – regarded as particularly sensual in ancient China – indicate that they do not represent a woman. 

In Buddhist thought, bodhisattvas have attained a higher level of existence. They are not distinguished as either male and female, and in fact they unite the beauty of both genders within themselves.

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