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  • The Four Excursions
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Padmasambhava
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Gazelle
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Budai
  • Stupa
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • 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
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Praying Priest
  • Stupa
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Bodhidharma
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Six Persimmons
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
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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