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  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Standing Tara
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Budai
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Travel Shrine
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Hotei
  • Praying Priest
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gazelle
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Head of a Monk
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Six Persimmons
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Stupa
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bodhidharma
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
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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