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  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Praying Priest
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Gazelle
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Stupa
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Travel Shrine
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Head of a Monk
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Stupa
  • Budai
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Padmasambhava
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Tara
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

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

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Four Excursions
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Hotei
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
Six Persimmons

Six Persimmons

This picture pays homage to one of the most renowned masterpieces of Zen art. In the 13th century, the Chinese Zen monk Muqi (ca 1210–1269) painted six persimmons in pure ink. A hallmark of the depiction is the systematic reduction of the motif. The fruits, lined up in a row except for one, are differentiated only by the tonality of the ink.  

Muqi’s picture has been described as the essence of Zen: absolute concentration on the here and now.

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