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Art

  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Budai
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Standing Buddha
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Gazelle
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Six Persimmons
  • Standing Tara
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Padmasambhava
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Rectangular Coin
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Bodhidharma
  • Head of a Monk
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Four Excursions
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Hotei
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Standing Buddha Amida
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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