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  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Gazelle
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Travel Shrine
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Stupa
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Padmasambhava
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Stupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Six Persimmons
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Tara
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Hotei
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Machig Labdrön
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Budai
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi

Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi

Dakinis are meditation deities. Dancing ecstatically, they appear to practitioners as naked, female beings with wrathful faces, wearing jewellery made of human skulls. Dakinis convey the wisdom of the Buddha in a challenging and extreme manner. 

Vajravarahi, referred to as “Diamond Sow” in Tibet, personifies the elementary force of the recognition of truth. She is depicted dancing ecstatically, completely naked but for her bone jewellery. In her hands she holds a cleaver and a skull cup brimming with blood – attributes intended to remind practitioners of the transient nature of the human body. Vajravarahi can be identified by the boar’s head on the right side of her face. Powerful and dangerous, the boar is a symbol of fearlessness and signifies the power Vajravarahi possesses to overcome the internal and external obstacles on the path to the recognition of truth.

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