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  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Head of a Monk
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Budai
  • Standing Tara
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Stupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Stupa
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Gazelle
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Bodhidharma
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • The Four Excursions
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Hotei
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Travel Shrine
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Standing Buddha
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Praying Priest
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon

Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon

This kammvaca manuscript contains monastic rules from the Pali canon in the Buddhist Theravada tradition. The individual leaves are made of starched fabric coated with lacquer. The book covers are of painted wood. 

Family members donated manuscripts like these when a boy entered a monastery. Every boy in Myanmar spends some time in a monastery. Admission into one is a ritual that marks his transition to adulthood, and is celebrated in families with a feast.

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