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  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Praying Priest
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Stupa
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Head of a Monk
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Four Excursions
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

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
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Travel Shrine
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

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
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gazelle
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Stupa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Standing Buddha
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Six Persimmons
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Budai
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Rectangular Coin
The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons

The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons

In China, women seeking help with their worries and troubles would often invoke the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Those hoping for a child, for instance, turned to him because he was considered to be the bringer of sons. He appears in that form here with a baby in his lap. 

This porcelain figure with its ivory-white glaze is typical of the work produced by the porcelain makers at Dehua, in Fujian Province in south-east China

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