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  • Stupa
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Six Persimmons
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Praying Priest
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Gazelle
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Stupa
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Hotei
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dharmatala 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
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Four Excursions
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child

Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child

Polychrome woodblock prints were very popular in Japan in the 18th century and were produced in large editions.

This print shows the 15th-century monk Hotei (Chin. Budai). His name literally means “hemp sack” and refers to the large bundle this legendary mendicant monk is said to have carried around with him. In China and Japan, he later became a god of good fortune. In this witty picture, the huge round sack frames the monk’s corpulent physique.

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