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Art

  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Praying Priest
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Monk
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Padmasambhava
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Hotei
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

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
  • Gazelle
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Budai
  • The Four Excursions
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Travel Shrine
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Buddha
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Standing Tara

Standing Tara

Standing Taras are rare and therefore keenly sought after by collectors of Nepalese art. Tara is shown here in a graceful pose with a pronounced S-shaped curve. Her right hand displays the gesture of genorosity; her left hand originally held the stem of the lily flowering next to her left shoulder. Tara is richly bejewelled. 
From frequent ritual touching, the gilt has rubbed off in places, which explains the colour contrast between the brown copper and the gilt residue.

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