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Art

  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Tara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Praying Priest
  • Six Persimmons
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Budai
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhidharma
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Gazelle
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Stupa
  • The Four Excursions
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Hotei
Gazelle

Gazelle

According to legend, the Buddha is said to have taught for the first time in the gazelle park of Benares. Ever since, gazelles have served as a symbol of the Buddha’s teachings. Even today, two gazelles along with a wheel are featured on the ridge of every teaching hall in every Tibetan monastery. This gazelle, too, probably once flanked the Wheel of the Law. Despite the horn on its forehead, it bears no relation to the mythical unicorn of European legends; instead, the horn identifies the animal as a male, which originally formed a pair with a hornless female.

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