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  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Budai
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Gazelle
  • Head of a Monk
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Padmasambhava
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Standing Tara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

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

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Hotei
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Standing Buddha
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Six Persimmons
  • 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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