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  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Standing Buddha
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Four Excursions
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Stupa
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Travel Shrine
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Bodhidharma
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Gazelle
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • 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 in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Stupa
  • Budai
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Six Persimmons
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Padmasambhava
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Hotei
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
The Buddha Begins Teaching

The Buddha Begins Teaching

This relief follows a standardized iconographic programme. The Buddha sits enthroned within a niche framed by two pillars; a magic face is visible above its arch. The Buddha wears a close-fitting, unpleated robe; only its hems are visible. He is shown instructing his disciples, his hands displaying the gesture of setting in motion the Wheel of the Law. The wheel is shown in his right hand, and again beneath his lotus throne, where it is flanked by two gazelles from the park at Sarnath. These, too, are symbols of Buddhism.

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