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  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Standing Tara
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Gazelle
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Praying Priest
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Four Excursions
  • Travel Shrine
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Head of a Monk
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Padmasambhava
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Hotei
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Budai
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
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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