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Art

  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Praying Priest
  • Head of a Monk
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Standing Tara
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Budai
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Gazelle
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Travel Shrine
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Standing Buddha
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • The Four Excursions
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Bodhidharma
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of the Buddha
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Buddha
Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni

Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni

The oval shape of the Buddha’s nimbus dominates the appearance of this votive stela. The flame motif of the nimbus and the figures accompanying the Buddha are engraved with shallow lines.

Votive stelae such as this were often commissioned by a group of donors and installed in a temple precinct. The names of the donors are incised on the rear of the stela.

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