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  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Hotei
  • Budai
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Travel Shrine
  • Gazelle
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Buddha
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Six Persimmons
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Praying Priest
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Standing Tara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Padmasambhava
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
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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