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  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Hotei
  • Gazelle
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Six Persimmons
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Budai
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Standing Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Padmasambhava
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
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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