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Art

  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Travel Shrine
  • Standing Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Gazelle
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Budai
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Stupa
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Praying Priest
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
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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