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  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Travel Shrine
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Gazelle
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Six Persimmons
  • Bodhidharma
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Standing Tara
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Monk
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Stupa
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
Head of the Buddha

Head of the Buddha

This head once formed part of a sculpture of the Buddha, as indicated by the whorl of hair, called an urna, between the eyebrows; it is one of the marks of the Buddha. His long curly hair is arranged into a topknot. Fragments of Buddha sculptures from Gandhara, heads especially, were in great demand in Europe, North America, and Japan from the early 20th century onwards. Gandharan art was fashionable at the time. It was then that this head entered the collection of Werner Coninx, the previous owner of this piece.

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