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  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Six Persimmons
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Budai
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • The Four Excursions
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Stupa
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Travel Shrine
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Bodhidharma
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Praying Priest
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Gazelle
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Head of the Buddha
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Head of a Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Arhats Panthaka, Gopaka, Nagasena, and Abheda

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Tara
  • Hotei
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
State Oracle Garment

State Oracle Garment

In the Tibetan tradition, the term “oracle” applies to the spirit of a deity that enters a medium – either a man or a woman – like a “vessel” and speaks through that person’s mouth. The Nechung state oracle holds sway over all others.

This ritual garment was made for the Nechung state oracle, which today is located in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Since it did not fit the current medium, the Museum Rietberg was able to purchase it.

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