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Art

  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Padmasambhava
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Budai
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Hotei
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Six Persimmons
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Praying Priest
  • Bodhidharma
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Gazelle
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Head of a Monk
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Four Excursions
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Stupa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Standing Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Standing Tara
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

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’ ”
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
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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