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Art

  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Padmasambhava
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Bodhidharma
  • Stupa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Standing Buddha
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Budai
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Gazelle
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Six Persimmons
  • Head of a Monk
  • Stupa
  • Praying Priest
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • 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
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
Buddha Shakyamuni

Buddha Shakyamuni

In the Ghandara region on the border between modern Pakistan and Afghanistan, this almost 2,000-year old depiction of Buddha Shakyamuni was then considered the epitome of beauty.

Audio Description

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Does this figure remind you of sculptures from ancient Greece?

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You’re at the Museum Rietberg, standing before this work of art?

Signs of a Buddha

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1 Protuberance on the crown of the head

2 Curled coils of hair

3 Forehead mark

4 Elongated earlobes

5 Three neck creases

6 Simple monk’s robe

7 Earth witness gesture

8 Gesture of meditation

More stories

Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening

Buddha Figures

Seated Bodhisattva

How Art Found the Buddha

Standing Buddha Shakyamuni

Legend or History?

Gazelle

From Prince to Buddha

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