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  • Standing Buddha
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Tara
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Gazelle
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Padmasambhava
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Bodhidharma
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Stupa
  • Travel Shrine
  • Budai
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Head of a Monk
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Stupa
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)

Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)

Buddhism had a strong influence on the development of book printing in Asia. The oldest woodblock prints of Buddhist texts were made in China and date back to the 7th century. By the end of the 10th century, the entire Buddhist canon, with over a thousand texts in 480 volumes, had been printed in China. Scholars in other countries quickly adopted the new copying technique for the dissemination of Buddhist texts. 

In Tibet, Buddhist texts were printed on long, narrow strips of paper from the 14th century onward. These were then placed between wooden covers and bound together to make books.

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