Art

  • The Four Excursions
  • Baisajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Thangka of the Twenty-One Taras
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Ceremonial Dagger Featuring the God of Death
  • Head of a Bodhisattva
  • Taima Mandala, the Buddha Amida’s Paradise
  • Bust of a Luohan
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Meditating Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Avalokiteshvara, 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 Tames the Wild Elephant Nalagiri
  • Votive Stela Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion as the Bringer of Sons
  • Votive Stela with Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Stupa
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Plaque Showing the Buddha Teaching
  • Dharani Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Insight
  • Female Monkey with Her Young
  • Yakshi, Nymph with Lotus Flowers, fragment of a baluster
  • Portrait of the Abbot Ennin
  • Buddha Dipankara, the Buddha of the Past
  • Head of a Monk
  • Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • The Ascetic Milarepa
  • Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar
  • Standing Buddha
  • Gazelle
  • The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617)
  • The Bodhisattva of Compassion Sitting in Meditation
  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Six Persimmons
  • Green Tara (Shyama Tara)
  • Shaka Nyorai, the Historical Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha’s Wedding
  • Standing Buddha Amida
  • Zen Priest in a Golden Wrap
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Travel Shrine
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
  • Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
  • The Buddha Begins Teaching
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • The Three Buddhas Dipankara, Shakyamuni, and Maitreya
  • Printing Block for a Prayer from the Text “Embodiment of the Three Jewels” by Jatson Nyingpo (1585–1656)
  • The Prophecy of the Wise Asita
  • Head of a Buddha
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Buddhist Votive Tablet
  • Praying Priest
  • Monastic Rules for Monks
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Posture of Royal Ease
  • Buddhist Monk
  • Jizo Bosatsu, Bodhisattva in the Guise of a Monk
  • Guhyamanjuvajra
  • Excerpt from the Lotus Sutra
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
  • Stupa
  • Seated Bodhisattva
  • Stela Showing Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
  • Pancha Raksha Manuscript
  • Head of the Buddha
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Sheltered by the Serpent-King
  • Hotei, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, with Child
  • The Descent of Buddha Amida
  • Machig Labdrön
  • Head of a Lokeshvara
  • The Arhats Vanavasin, Angaja, Kalika, and Ajita From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • The Four Pleasures of Nan Shenglu (detail)
  • Standing Bodhisattva
  • Jambhala, the God of Wealth
  • Buddha Shakyamuni as a Newborn Infant
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Sitatara, White Tara
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • Dakini Vasya-Vajravarahi
  • Padmasambhava with his 25 Tibetan Pupils From a series of 7 thangkas
  • The Layman Huashang and Two Lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Maitreya
  • Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, as the Patron of fishermen
  • Standing Monk with Hands Folded
  • Budai
  • The Arhats Bakula, Rahula, Cudapanthaka, and Pindola From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vase with Lotus Vines and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
  • Gendün Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama (1476–1542)
  • Portrait of the Zen Priest Gemmon Doyu
  • Padmasambhava
  • The Arhats Kanakavasta, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Bhadra From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Buddhist Monastic Rules from the Pali Canon
  • Buddha Shakyamuni From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • Vijaya Stupa
  • Buddhist Votive Stela of the Yan Family
  • Leaving for Homelessness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni at the Moment of his Awakening
  • Shakyamuni Enters Nirvana
  • The Prophecy of the Buddha Dipankara
  • Mara’s Daughters Tempt the Buddha
  • Empress Jito, from the series “Parody of the Ogura Version of ‘One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems’ ”
  • Standing Tara
  • Bodhidharma
  • Buddha Shakyamuni Attains Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Amida Nyorai, Buddha of the Western Paradise
  • Large Votive Stupa
  • Dharmatala and two lokapalas From a series of 7 thangkas with Buddha Shakyamuni and the 18 arhats
  • The Buddha Invokes the Earth Goddess as his Witness
  • Buddha Shakyamuni 
  • Mahasiddha Virupa
  • Bodhidharma Crosses the Yangtze River on a Reed
  • Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
  • Buddha Shakyamuni and the Earth-Touching Gesture
  • Buddha Vairocana
  • Dharmapala Yama
  • The Buddha’s Parinirvana
  • Monumental Head of a Bodhisattva
  • The Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya
  • Rectangular Coin
  • Sakya Pandita (1182–1252)
  • The Death of the Buddha
  • Shyamatara, Green Tara
  • Buddha Shakyamuni with Scenes from his Life
  • Half-length Portrait of the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma
  • Hotei
  • Relief of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
  • Vajradhara, the Primordial Buddha
  • State Oracle Garment
Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar

Buddhist Pocket-sized Prayer Altar

This small altar is made of wood and has a black lacquer exterior. To use it in a ritual, one would open the two wings, revealing the saviour figures painted with lacquer pigments on a gold background. At the centre within an aureole stands Amitabha, the Buddha of Compassion. He is flanked by two bodhisattvas descending on clouds and reverently presenting him with two lotus blossoms.