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  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Four Excursions
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Praying Priest
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Six Persimmons
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Padmasambhava
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Standing Tara
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Gazelle
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
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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