Art

Girl Herder
Lhasa, Tibet, 2006
Painting with large central figure seated on lotus blossom surrounded by temple above and people and elephants below.
Tonpa Shenrab with Episodes from His Life
Amdo Region, Eastern Tibet, 18th - 19th century
Untitled (Wheel of Existence)
2012
Victory over Mara
Buryatia, Mongolia, 19th century
Vasudhara and Hvashang
Tibet, 17th century
Updating Yamantaka
2010
Two Arhats, Pantaka and Gopaka
Tibet, 17th century
The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha: Renunciation
Tibet, late 19th - early 20th century
Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339)
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Temple Banner (Bilampau) Depicting Prince Virakusha's Legend
Nepal, Dated by inscription 1864
Temple Banner (Bilampau) Depicting Kavi Kumara's Legend
Saptapura Mahavihara, Patan, Nepal, Dated by inscription 1864
Temple Banner (Bilampau) Depicting Avalokiteshvara's Legends Described in the Newari Version of the Gunakarandavyuha Sutra
Nepal, 17th century
Tara Protecting from the Eight Fears
Kham Province, Southeastern Tibet, late 19th - early 20th century
Songtsen Gampo (ruled 617-650) (From a set of the previous lives of the Dalai Lamas)
Tibet, 19th century
Stories of Noble Deeds (Avadana)
Central Tibet, late 18th-19th century
Stories of the Previous Lives of the Buddha (Jataka)
Eastern Tibet, Late 17th-18th century
Stories of the Noble Deeds (Avadana), After a Set Designed by Situ Panchen (1700–1774) Illustrating Kshemendra’s Avadanakalpanada
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Renunciation, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, After a woodblock carved in Derge, Kham region, eastern Tibet, composition attributed to Purbu Tsering of Chamdo (active ca. late 19th century)
Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 20th century
Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo (1012-1088)
Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Sacred Earthly Realms and Heavenly Paradises
Central Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th century
Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)
Tibet, 17th or 18th century
Scenes from the Life of Padmasambhava
Tibet, 19th century
Scenes from the life of Padmasambhava
Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Scenes from the life of Padmasambhava
Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Previous Lives of the Buddha
Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
The Potala Palace and the main Monuments of Lhasa
Tibet or Inner Mongolia, 18th - early 19th century (ca 1757-1804)
Pilgrimage Map of Wutaishan
Cifu Temple (慈福寺), Wutaishan, China, dated 1846
Padmasambhava, Pema Jungne
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, late 18th-19th century
Padmasambhava and scenes from his life story
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 18th - 19th century
Padmasambhava
Tibet, 18th century
Mount Mehru
Himalayan Region, 19th century
Monkey Mask
Bhutan, c. 19th century
Milarepa (1052-1135) and Scenes from His Life
Tibet, 18th century
Maitreya, Buddha of the Future
Mongolia, 19th century
Kumara
Nepal, 11th century
Life Story of Buddha Shakyamuni
Tibet, 19th century
Life Story of Tsongkapa (1357-1419)
Tibet, 18th century
Maitreya
Tibet, 17th century
Maitreya (or Buddha Shakyamuni)
Tibet, 14th century
Major Events of the Buddha's Life
Northeastern India, 12th century
Kalachakra Cosmology Illustration
Tibet, 16th century
Indian Master Shantarakshita (active 8th century) and Scenes from his Life
Tibet, 19th century
Illustrated Manuscript Depicting the Story of Water
Nepal, 17th century
Green Tara as Protectress from the Eight Fears
Central Tibet, 19th century
The Great Stupa of Boudhanath
Buryatia, 19th century
Green Tara as Protectress from the Eight Fears-Drowning
Central Tibet, 19th century
Buddha Shakyamuni and Stories of his Previous Lives
Tibet, mid-late 14th century
Buddha Shakyamuni with Maitreya and Avalokiteshvara
Swat, 8th century
Buddha Shakymuni and scenes from his life
Tsang Province, Central Tibet, second half of the 14th century
Chogyel Phakpa (1235–1280) initiating Qubilai Khan (1215–1294)
Tibet, ca. 16th-17th century
Copy of the Sandalwood Buddha (rgya nag gi tsandan jo bo)
Tibet, 18th century
Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Tibet, 14th-15th century
Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Buddha's Birth, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha
Eastern Tibet, Kham Province, Derge Printing House, after 1960
Buddha Amitayus in His Pure Realm
Inner Mongolia, 19th century
Bodhisattva Maitreya
Tibet or China, 17th - 18th century
Bodhisattva Kshitigarbha
Tibet, 17th 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
Birth of Buddha
Tibet, 19th century
Atisha (982-1054)
Tibet, ca. 18th-19th century
Arhat Subhuti (After Choying Gyatso’s (active ca.1640s-1660s) Set of Previous Incarnations of the Panchen Lamas)
Central Tibet, 19th century
Arhat Abheda
Tibet, 16th century

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