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  • Padmasambhava
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Stupa
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Praying Priest
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Six Persimmons
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Hotei
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Bodhidharma
  • Stupa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • 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
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Budai
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Head of a Monk
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Gazelle
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • 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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