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  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Gazelle
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Praying Priest
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Standing Tara
  • Standing Buddha
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Budai
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Stupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Head of a Monk
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Hotei
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
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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