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Art

  • Standing Buddha
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola 

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Six Persimmons
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra 

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

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Padmasambhava
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Budai
  • Praying Priest
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • 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
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Four Excursions
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Gazelle
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Stupa
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Head of a Monk
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Bodhidharma
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Empress Jito,
from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • State Oracle Garment
  • Hotei
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers,  fragment of a baluster
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils

From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita

From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Stupa
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • Standing Tara
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
Standing Monk with Hands Folded

Standing Monk with Hands Folded

Standing erect, this monk holds his hands folded in front of his chest in the “anjali” gesture, which expresses respectful salutation and ritual worship. Both feet are missing. The robe flutters around his legs and is so fine that his nipples are visible. His head is covered in tight curls. His earlobes are elongated as often seen in buddha figures, where they signify the rejection of worldly possessions. Perhaps the intention here is similar, as monks, too, renounce material goods such as jewellery.

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