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Art

  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Bodhidharma
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

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

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Six Persimmons
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Four Excursions
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Standing Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Standing Tara
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Gazelle
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Stupa
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Travel Shrine
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Hotei
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Praying Priest
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
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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