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  • Budai
  • Stupa
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Gazelle
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Monk
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Four Excursions
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Standing Tara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

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
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • 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
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Six Persimmons
Monastic Rules for Monks

Monastic Rules for Monks

Texts of this kind contain the monastic rules from the Pali canon of the Theravada tradition of Buddhism. These precious manuscripts were produced for novices living in a monastery and who would later take their vows as monks. The individual leaves are fine sheets of ivory that have been gilded and decorated with floral motifs. They once belonged to Johannes Itten, the first director of the Museum Rietberg.

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