Art

Yama Dharmaraja with Consort Yami
Tibet, 18th century
Yama Dharmaraja
Mongolia, 19th century
Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali
Central Tibet, late 18th century
Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali
China, second half of the 15th century
Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali
Mongolia, 18th - 19th century
Vajrabhairava
Mongolia, ca. 19th century
Vajrabhairava
Inner Mongolia, 19th century
Updating Yamantaka
2010
Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)
Tibet, ca. 15th century
Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)
Tibet, ca. 15th century
Smashana Adipati, Lords of the Charnel Ground
Tibet, 15th century
Skull Cup
Nepal, ca. 18th century
Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)
Tibet, ca. 15th century
Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)
Tibet, ca. 15th century
Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)
Tibet, ca. 15th century
Ritual Bone Apron
Tibet/Nepal, 18th - 19th century

Spiral

It Matters How You Are Born; It Matters How You Die
A birth doula and a death doula share how support helps people through major life transitions
Spiritual First Responder
Words and teachings for difficult transitions
Presence in Death
In tukdam, clinically dead meditators are said to dwell in the luminosity of emptiness
Ritual Lens
A daughter documents her mother's decline and the Hindu rites around death and mourning
The Wheel of Life
A representation of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth
Death, the Bardo, and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism
How the mind navigates the passage between death and rebirth
Illuminating the Afterlife
An unusual depiction of heaven reflects beliefs about life and death in medieval Europe
Good Will Writing
An ethical will passes down wisdom through the generations
Place, Loss, Adaptation
A Nepalese immigrant finds solace in faraway Vermont
Everything Is Life
How Conscious Dying Can Be a Form of Living
­Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Remembering the legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh
Wake Up to Find Out
A short strange trip from chaos to enlightenment
Lee Mingwei in Measure Your Existence
A series on the artists from the exhibition
Meiro Koizumi in Measure Your Existence
A series on the artists from the exhibition
The Way of the Cosmos
Finding your place in the universe. Literally.
Impermanence Can Set Us Free
How Buddhism encourages us to embrace the instability of life

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