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Art

  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Bodhidharma
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Gazelle
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Stupa
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Praying Priest
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Travel Shrine
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Padmasambhava
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Standing Tara
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Four Excursions
  • Head of a Monk
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
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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