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  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Six Persimmons
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Budai
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

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
  • Stupa
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Hotei
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

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
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Gazelle
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Four Excursions
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Praying Priest
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Bodhidharma
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Standing Tara
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Machig Labdrön
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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