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  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Gazelle
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Hotei
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

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
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Standing Tara
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Head of a Monk
  • Budai
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Six Persimmons
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Praying Priest
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Travel Shrine
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Stupa
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Standing Buddha
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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