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Art

  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Buddha
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Stupa
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Budai
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Padmasambhava
  • Gazelle
  • Standing Tara
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Bodhidharma
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Hotei
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Six Persimmons
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Off you go, headless! This appears to have been the fate of this figure when it was removed from its original location in a sacred cave and carted off to Europe.

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How did this headless body reach Switzerland?

https://rietberg.fluxguide.com/fluxguide/Bodhisattva

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

Western wall of cave 14, Tianlongshan Grottoes, Shanxi province, China

https://rietberg.fluxguide.com/fluxguide/Western wall of cave 14, Tianlongshan Grottoes, Shanxi province, China

The figure of the Bodhisattva in cave 14 at the Tianlongshan Grottoes before it was looted, around 1920.

More stories

Seated Bodhisattva

How Art Found the Buddha

Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening

Buddha Figures

Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree

Buddhism Since the 19th Century

Head of a Buddha

“Western” Buddhism?

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