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  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Budai
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhidharma
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Gazelle
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Standing Tara
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Six Persimmons
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Head of a Monk
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Stupa
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Hotei
  • The Four Excursions
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • 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
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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