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  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • 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’ ”
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Budai
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Praying Priest
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

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

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

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Standing Tara
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Six Persimmons
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Gazelle
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Head of a Monk
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Hotei
  • Stupa
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
Buddhist Monk

Buddhist Monk

This restrained figure of a monk from China was one of the first Buddhist statues owned by Eduard von der Heydt, the founding donor of the Museum Rietberg. An old photograph indicates that he must have owned it even before 1917.

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