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  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Praying Priest
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Gazelle
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Hotei
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Travel Shrine
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Monk
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Four Excursions
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
Standing Buddha Amida

Standing Buddha Amida

Buddha Amitabha (Jap. Amida) is the personification of compassion and wisdom combined. This wooden figure stands upon a flowering lotus; the gestures made by the hands indicate that Amitabha will help his followers on their path and will fulfil their wishes. 

Typical characteristics of Amida sculptures from 18th-century Japan include the strong body with broad shoulders and a slightly protruding stomach, and the playful, rather stylized arrangement of the folds in the robe.

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