Art

  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Hotei
  • Empress Jito, from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Travel Shrine
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Six Persimmons
  • Bodhidharma
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Head of a Monk
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • The Four Excursions
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Tara
  • Budai
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers, fragment of a baluster
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Machig Labdrön
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Gazelle
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree

Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree

These two metal objects are almost identical and show Prince Siddhartha on the path to his awakening. He is sitting under the Bodhi tree and calls the earth goddess to be his witness at the moment of awakening. 

Objects like these were produced in large quantities for ritual purposes. In Myanmar, Buddhist men and women obtained them in order to donate them to a shrine.