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Art

  • Travel Shrine
  • Budai
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Hotei
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Padmasambhava
  • Stupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gazelle
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddhist Monk
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Stupa
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Four Excursions
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Tara
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

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

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

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha

Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha

On the left of this heavily undercut relief, Buddha Shakyamuni is seated in deep meditation. At the other end of the scene is Mara, the god of death, in deep despair. He had tried in vain to prevent the Buddha from awakening. He had even sent his three beautiful daughters to seduce him with their physical charms, as can be seen in the image, but with no success. They could not wrench him from his deep contemplation, nor could the three terrifying demons pushing into the scene at the top right.

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