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  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • The Four Excursions
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Head of a Monk
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Praying Priest
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Hotei
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Standing Buddha
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Six Persimmons
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • State Oracle Garment
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • 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

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Bodhidharma
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Budai
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Padmasambhava
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Standing Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Gazelle
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Stupa
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
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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