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Art

  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Budai
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Travel Shrine
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Tara
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Head of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Gazelle
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Four Excursions
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
The Death of the Buddha

The Death of the Buddha

The object shows the deceased Buddha laid out in a coffin on a high scaffold. Around him are eight monks with their hands folded, paying their last respects. As they bid him farewell, the Buddha's body is cremated.. 

In Myanmar, objects like this were placed in reliquary shrines in large numbers. People donated them as a token of reverence and in the hope of accumulating merit.

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