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Art

  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Six Persimmons
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Travel Shrine
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Praying Priest
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Budai
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Stupa
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Standing Tara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Head of a Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Gazelle
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Stupa
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Hotei
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Bodhidharma
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Head of a Monk
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise

Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise

The Taima Mandala is a pictorial meditation guide and illustrates an important text of the Pure Land School.

The left strip describes the plot: a prince pays heed to the evil accusations of an enemy and locks up his parents in prison. The queen seeks help from the Buddha Amitabha. He appears to her, bringing with him a method of meditation that will guide her to rebirth in his Pure Land. 

The central image depicts Buddha Amitabha’s paradise with its magnificent palaces, jewel-clad trees, musicians, dancers, and recently reborn souls sitting on large lotus blossoms.

The right strip gives instructions on how to picture the Pure Land – from sunset and cooling waters, to gardens and palaces, right up to the Buddha and his followers – so that it emerges in one’s own imagination.

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