Art

  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Budai
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Travel Shrine
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Head of a Monk
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Standing Buddha
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers, fragment of a baluster
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Bodhidharma
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Padmasambhava
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Praying Priest
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Hotei
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Six Persimmons
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Stupa
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gazelle
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Empress Jito, from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree

Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree

This plaque of fired clay shows the Buddha seated in meditation under the Bodhi tree. 

 
Plaques of this kind were mass produced. They were purchased as religious mementos on visits to temples, monasteries, and pilgrimage sites.