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  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Hotei
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Budai
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Bodhidharma
  • Gazelle
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Padmasambhava
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Standing Tara
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Stupa
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Standing Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
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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