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Rubin Museum of Art

Art 32 Spiral 4

A detailed painting showing multiple deities, with a central seated figure and consort above and a fierce multi-armed deity and consort dancing within a ring of flames below. Other smaller deities in various poses are arranged around the three largest deities. A landscape with small human and nonhuman figures appears at the bottom.

Ratnasambhava, Ratna Heruka, and Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Bardo

Tibet, 18th century

Arhat Mahakashyapa

China, 17th century

Tara Protecting from the Eight Fears

Kham region, eastern Tibet, 19th century

Tara as Protectress from the Eight Fears

Eastern Tibet, 19th century

China, Dated 1439

Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo (1012-1088)

Eastern Tibet, 18th century

Padmasambhava in His Pure Realm, the Copper-Colored Mountain

Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century

Nepal, 16th-17th century

Life Story of Nangsa Wobum

New York City, 2020

Green Tara as Protectress from the Eight Fears

Central Tibet, 19th century

Tibet, 18th century

Tibet, 15th century

Kham region, eastern Tibet, 19th century

Five Arhats: Ajita, Kalika, Vanavasin, Vajriputra, Bhadra

Tibet, 18th century

Chogyel Phakpa (1235–1280) initiating Qubilai Khan (1215–1294)

Tibet, ca. 16th-17th century

Copy of the Udhayana Sandalwood Buddha

Tibet, 18th - 19th century

Buddha's Birth, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha

Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham region, Eastern Tibet, ca 1979

Buddha Amitayus

Bhutan, late 19th or early 20th century

Buddha Amitayus

Tibet, 17th century

Buddha Amitabha in the Pure Realm of Sukhavati

Central Tibet, 19th century

Birth of the Buddha, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, after a carved woodblock composition attributed to Purbu Tsering of Chamdo (active ca. late 19th century)

Tibet, 20th century

Avalokiteshvara in his Potala Pure Realm

Tibet, 19th century

Avalokiteshvara in his Potala Pure Land

Tibet, late 18th–early 19th century

Avalokiteshvara

Tibet, 12th century

Tibet, 18th century

China, 1736–1795

China or Tibet, 17th - 18th century

Tibet, 18th century

Tibet, 18th century

Tibet, 16th century

Arhat Chudapantaka

Tibet, late 15th century

Tibet or China, 17th century

A poem on remembering and turning the mind

Buddhism Creative Writing Magazine

The Power and Purpose of Human Intention in Buddhism

Good intentions offer the possibility of liberation in Buddhism

Waking Up to Power Is a Spiritual Practice

How meditation and activism can work together to quiet the mind in a loud, troubled world

Buddhist Perspectives Activism Magazine

Listening and Liberation: The World Is Sound

An exhibition ventures into the power of sound and practice of listening

Buddhism Music Traditional Himalayan Art Contemporary Art Forms Magazine