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  • Travel Shrine
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Budai
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Hotei
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Stupa
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Praying Priest
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Four Excursions
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Bodhidharma
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Monk
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Stupa
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Gazelle
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Six Persimmons
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
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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