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  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Budai
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Padmasambhava
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Machig Labdrön
  • 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
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Praying Priest
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Hotei
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Gazelle
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Standing Buddha
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster

Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers, fragment of a baluster

This tree nymph, called a yakshi, is portrayed dancing. In her left hand, above her head, she holds a water vessel containing lotus flowers; in her right hand, she holds a lotus in full bloom. She is naked except for items of jewellery such as armbands and drop earrings. Her hair is braided, and only the odd strand falls across her full breasts.

This relief once formed part of a stupa, and was probably set within its gateway or perimeter wall.

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