Senge Dradok, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava Kham Province, Eastern Tibet 18th century
Dorje Drolo, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava Kham Province, Eastern Tibet 19th century
Loden Chokse, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava Kham Province, Eastern Tibet 19th century
Pema Gyelpo, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava Eastern Tibet early 20th century
Orgyen Dorje Chang, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava Eastern Tibet 19th century
Padmasambhava, Pema Jungne Kham Province, Eastern Tibet late 18th-19th century
Four Mandalas of the Vajravali Cycle Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang region, central Tibet 1429–1456
Vajrabhairava Solitary of Rwa Lotsawa Tradition Western mural painting in Hevajra Chapel, middle floor, Gongkar Chode Monastery, Gongkar County, Lhokha, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) ca. 1464–1476 Khyentse Chenmo (active 15th century)
Drenpa Namkha (ca. 8th century) Amdo Province, Eastern Tibet 19th century
Bon Lama Sanggye Lingpa (1705-1735) Gyelrong, Eastern Tibet 19th century
Takla Membar Tibet 19th century
The Buddhist Deities Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi Tibet (by a Newar artist) ca. 15th century
Maitreya Procession at Lama-yin Gegeen-ü Khüriye Mongolia late 19th–early 20th century Gempil-yin Dorji (Mongolian, late 19th–early 20th century)
Maitreya Mongolia late 19th century Gendundamba (Mongolian, late 19th–early 20th century)
Panchen Lama rebirth lineage portraits, set of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Tsongkapa (1357-1419) Tibet 18th century
Songtsen Gampo (ruled 617-650) (From a set of the previous lives of the Dalai Lamas) Tibet 19th century
Hevajra Northern mural painting in Hevajra Chapel, middle floor, Gongkar Chode Monastery, Gongkar County, Lhokha, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) ca. 1464–1476 Khyentse Chenmo (active 15th century)
Four-armed Mahakala, left, and Remati, right Ron Wosel Puk, Tibet 1538
Manjushrikirti, King of Shambhala, From a set of previous incarnations of the Panchen Lamas Du Jinsheng Silk Factory, Maojiabu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China ca. 1922-1937
Four-faced Linga Nepal 18th - 19th century
Red Avalokiteshvara or Bunga Dya Nepal dated by inscription, 1818
Woodblock Print of the Buddha with His Assembly China 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
Yungton Dorje Pel (1284 1365) (After Choying Gyatso’s (active ca.1640s-1660s) set of previous incarnations of the Panchen Lamas) Central Tibet 19th century
Buddha Shakyamuni with Arhats Ushnisavijaya and Celebration of Old Age (Jyatha Janko) Chariot Ritual (Bhimaratha Pata) Mold for an image of Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) Mold for clay image (tsatsa) of Vajrapani Bodhisattva Suryabaskara Mold for clay image (tsatsa) of Buddha Amitayus Bodhisattvas Maitreya and Manjushri in Tushita Pure Realm Chakrasamvara with Consort Vajravarahi Woodblock for printing prayer flag Woodblock for printing Tibetan text Sitatapatra Tara as Protectress from the Eight Fears Tara, as a Great Yogini, After a Set of Paintings “Twenty-seven Tantric Deities” designed by Situ Panchen (1700-1774) Buddha Amitayus Vajravarahi Vairochana, From a Set of Initiation Cards (Taskali) White Tara Padmasambhava Medicine Buddha Avalokiteshvara Medicine Buddha Palace (copy of first painting from the set of the Tibetan Medical Paintings from Mentsikhang Lhasa) Medical Painting of Minor Connecting Blood Vessels or Capillaries, Illustration to the Medical Treatise The Blue Beryl, Chapter 4 Medical Instruments Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyelsten Medical Painting on Prophylactics, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Principles, Illustration to the Medical Treatise the Blue Beryl, Chapters 23–28 Panjaranatha Mahakala Panjaranatha Mahakala Mandala of Chakrasamvara Lekden Mahakala Mahakala Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali Buddha Vairochana Red Avalokiteshvara or Bunga Dya Heruka with Consort Refuge Field with Machik Labdron (1055–1153) Siddhi Lakshmi Life Story of Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha Shakyamuni and Teaching Stories (Avadana) Life Story of Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) Padmasambhava and his eight manifestations Arhat Nagasena Wheel of Existence Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813-1899) Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo (1012-1088) The Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617–1682) with Previous Incarnations Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Indrabhuti, from a set of the Eight Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas) Temple Banner with Seven Symbols of Royal Power and Offerings Pelden Lhamo Mongolia late 17th century
Tara central Tibet ca. 1260
Chakrasamvara and the Footprints of Drigungpa Jikten Sumgon (1143–1217) Tibet before 1217
Chakrasamvara in Union with Vajravarahi central Tibet ca. 1386
Changkya Rolpai Dorje China 18th century
Dancing Ganapati central Tibet ca. mid-15th century
Design for Grand Maitreya Project, work-in-progress near Ulaanbaatar
Desire Lhasa 2020 Tsering Dolma (b. 1966, Lhasa)
Detail of a nobleman’s robe Delgerkhaan soum, Khentii Province, Mongolia Mongol Imperial period, 14th century
Bunga Dyo, the Legend of Red Avalokiteshvara Nepal 1712
Illustrated Manuscript Depicting the Story of Water Nepal 17th century
Detail of Makzor Gyelmo, Queen Who Repels Armies, from lower right of painting, showing four ladies with a range of vessels including a two-toned, open-top pitcher with spout and handle Amdo region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Guru Rinpoche/ Padmasambhava Taktsang, upper Lhakhang, Upper Paro Valley, western Bhutan ca. 1692–93 (destroyed in 1998 fire)
Detail of Pegam Chest showing pitcher and chemar bo grain vessel on the central table as greeting offerings 19th century
Detail of The Altan Khan’s Family Back Shrine of the Main Assembly Hall, Maidari-yin Juu, Inner Mongolia, China 18th century
Detail of Two Indian and Four Tibetan Masters central Tibet early 13th century
Ushnishavijaya Tibet 18th century
Dungtso Repa Extracting Treasure, detail of a thangka Gangteng Monastery, Nubding, Bhutan
Facade of the main assembly hall of Shara Süme, “Yellow Monastery,” imperial monastery built on the same model as Amarbayasgalant Khiid (1727–1736) Dolonnuur, Inner Mongolia 1727–1731, partially destroyed by Russian troops in 1945 Lei Jinyu, architect (1659–1729)
Forty-Three-Deity Mandala of Manjuvajra central Tibet 1375–1380
Fourth Panchen Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen (1570–1662), with previous incarnations Tsang region, central Tibet mid-17th century Attributed by inscription to Choying Gyatso (act. 17th century)
Geluk Refuge Field with Tsongkhapa central Tibet ca. late 18th–early 19th century
Ghantapa as one of the Eight Great Tantric Adepts Kham region, eastern Tibet 18th century
Godāvapa Stūpa Sri Lanka 1941 Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)
Goddess Marichi Mongolia late 17th or early 18th century Attributed to Zanabazar (Mongolian, 1635–1723) or his workshop
Green Tara central Tibet ca. 1260s
Green Tara Khara Khoto, Inner Mongolia, China; Western Xia late 12th–13th century
Guru Rinpoche second floor hallway, Tango Monastery 17th century (1688/90)
Handheld Prayer Wheel Tibet 19th–20th century
Handheld Drum (Damaru) Tibet or Mongolia early 20th century
Herbal Medicines, Painting 26 of the Tibetan Medical Paintings, Ulan Ude Set Lhasa, central Tibet early 20th-century copy of original from ca. 1687–1697
Ikh Khüree Naadam Mongolia 1966 D. Damdinsüren (Mongolian, 1909-1984)
Ikh Khüree Tsam Mongolia 1966 D. Damdinsüren (1909–1984)
Jügdernamjil (Three Deities of Longevity) Mongolia late 19th century Jügdür (Mongolian, flourished late 19th–early 20th century)
Juu Shakyamuni with his pupils made in Dolonnuur, Inner Mongolia, decorated in Buryatia (Federation of Russia) 19th century
Kalachakra (Dechingalba) Temple in Yekhe Khüriye Monastery Mongolia late 19th century
Karmapa with His Footprints central Tibet late 12th–early 13th century
King Bhaskara Deva Varma (12th century) and Woman Donor Wearing Tayo-bizakani Kwa Baha, Patan, Nepal 1804
Lacquered Wood Duomu Pitcher with Gold Floral Designs China 19th–20th century
Lama (Teacher) Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651) Bhutan early 18th century
Lama Chogyur Lingpa (1829–1870) Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Lama Zhang Tangut Xixia 1032–1227
Leg Bone Trumpet (Kang Ling) Tibet 18th–19th century
Life Story of Buddha Shakyamuni Tibet 19th century
Maitreya Mongolia 1680s Zanabazar (1635–1723)
Maitreya Mongolia 1680s Zanabazar (1635–1723)
Maitreya Procession in Yekhe Khüriye 1965 D. Damdinsüren (Mongolian, 1909–1984)
Canopy of a Mahakala Yantra Tibet 18th century
Mandala of Sarvavid Vairocana (Durgatiparisodhana from the Vajradhatu Mandala Series) Inner Mongolia or Beijing ca. 18th century
Mandala of the Buddhist Deity Chakrasamvara Nepal dated 1490
Mandala of the Sun God Surya Surrounded by Eight Planetary Deities Nepal likely 1379
Manjughosha Emperor, Niched hanging shrine panel, Eastern Side Hall, Pavilion of Raining Flowers Manuscript folio of illustrated instructions for the creation of an unidentified do effigy from a combination of namkhas Lo Montang, Mustang district, Nepal 19th century
Map of Yekhe Khüriye Mongolia 19th century
Map of Yekhe Khüriye Mongolia late 19th century Balgan (act. late 19th century)
Marpa Lotsawa (1012–1097) Tibet 17th century Attributed by inscription to Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje (Tibetan, 1604–1674)
Medical Lineage Holders, Painting 80 of the Tibetan Medical Paintings, Lhasa Set Lhasa, central Tibet early 20th century
Monk’s Cap Silver Pitcher Tibet 19th century
Nagarjuna and Aryadeva, after Situ’s set of The Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Namra Tseku, detail of thangka Tibet
Nine Deity Offering Mongolia 19th century
Nineteenth-Century Copy of the Paubha Commemorating the Death of Pandita Vanaratna (1384–1468) Patan, Nepal 1862
Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje (1555–1603) Central Tibet late 16th century
Open tashi gomang Thimphu, Bhutan 19th–20th century
Painted Scroll of Bhimaratha Ritual Hāku Bāhāḥ, Kathmandu, Nepal dated by inscription January 1830
Painted Scroll of Laksha Chaitya Ritual Kathmandu, Nepal dated by inscription January 1808
Painting of Machik Labdron (1055–1153) Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Painting of Temples and Monasteries of Lhasa Kham region, eastern Tibet 1900–1920
Panjaranatha Mahakala Tibet 15th century
Panjarnatha Mahakala Tibet 18th century
Panoramic Map of Mount Wutai Cifu Temple, Wutaishan, China 1846 Monk Lhundrub, engraver of Sanggai Aimag (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Portrait of Vanaratna (1384–1468) central Tibet 15th century
Prayer Beads (trengwa) Tibet 19th century
Sixth Panchen Lobzang Pelden Yeshe (1738–1780), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Manjushriyashas (Jampel Drak), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Bhaviveka (Lekden Je, ca. 500–ca. 578), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Abhayakaragupta (Jigme Jungne Bapa, d. 1125), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Go Lotsawa Khukpa Lhetse (11th century), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (1182–1251), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Yungton Dorje Pel (1284–1365), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
[First Panchen] Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang (1385–1438), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
[Second Panchen] Sonam Choklang (1439–1504), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Subhuti (Rabjor), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Fourth Panchen Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen (1567–1662), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
[Third Panchen] Wensapa Lobzang Dondrub (1505–1566), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Fifth Panchen Lobzang Yeshe (1663–1737), one of thirteen thangkas copied from Nartang xylographic designs Tibet 19th century
Protective Astrological Chart Tibet late 18th or early 19th century
Raktayamari Imperial Workshop, South China Ming Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Ratnasambhava central Tibet ca. mid-13th century
Ritual Bone Apron Tibet/Nepal 18th–19th century
Rock Painting (no longer extant) Taktsang, Upper Paro Valley, western Bhutan ca. 14th–15th century
Rock Painting of a Bird Che Do, Lake Namtso, Tibet Protohistoric or Early Historic period (ca. 600–1000 CE)
Rock paintings in red ocher of a conjoined sun and moon, two sunbursts, a tree, and two swastikas Chukargyam, Rutok, Tibet Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE) or Protohistoric period (ca. 100–600 CE)
Russian Consulate and Holy Trinity Church Yekhe Khüriye, Mongolia 1912 Ivan Korostovets (Russian, 1862–1933)
Saint Drukpa Kunley, great-grandfather of Desi Tenzin Rabgye second floor, Desi Zimkhang, Tango Monastery 17th century (1688/90)
Sarnath Buddha India ca. 1940 Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)
Sarvavid Vairochana Mandala Tibet 17th century
Scenes from the Early Life of the Buddha western Tibet or western Nepal 14th century
Silver Juu (Tib. Jowo), Main Assembly Hall of Yekhe Juu Höhhot, Inner Mongolia, China 1579
Situ Panchen as Patron of The Wish-Granting Vine Series of One Hundred and Eight Morality Tales, twenty-third painting after Situ’s set Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Skull Cup with Base Tibet 18th–20th century
Songtsen Gampo with Handprints and Footprints Tibet late 17th century
Spring Morning India ca. 1940 Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)
Statue of Amitayus, Dolonnuur style 19th century
Statue of Manjushri Efi (efü?) khalkha süme, Shiliin Gol League (formerly in Chakhar), Inner Mongolia mid-18th century
Statue of Ten Thousand Knives Padmasambhava, said to be made of melted knives offered by the local population in the aftermath of a murder Khamar Monastery, Dornogovi Province, Mongolia First half of 19th century, crown made in 2005 Two artisans from the Chinese metal workshops of Dolonnuur and local smiths following the instructions of the great reincarnate lama Danzin-Rabjai (1804–1856)
Statue of White Tara Dolonnuur, Inner Mongolia 18th or 19th century
Subhasitaratnanidhi (Treasury of Good Sayings) Mongolian translation in phags pa (square script) Khocho 13th–14th century
Thangka of Kongpo Bonri, southeast Tibet, represented as the citadel of the tantric divinity Tsochok Khagying, Nyingtri, Kongpo, Tibet 18th century?
The Akshobya Mandala and White and Blue Achala Segoma Lhakhang, Zhalu Monastery; Tsang region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) 14th century
The Buddha’s Footprints and Incarnations of Avalokiteshvara Tibet 10–11th century
The Eight Great Events of the Buddha’s Life Tibet ca. 13th century
The Fifth Dalai Lama, with Hand- and Footprints Tibet late 17th century
The Ninth Panchen Lama hanging on a pillar in Lhakhang, Lukhil Monastery, Likir Village, Ladakh, India Unknown photographer and artist
The North Fort at Taku, China, 1860 North Fort at Taku, China 1860 Felice Beato (British, 1832–1909)
The Potala and the Principal Monuments of Central Tibet Tibet 19th century
The Previous Lives of Buddha Shakyamuni Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
The Wish-Granting Vine Series of One Hundred and Eight Morality Tales, twenty-first painting after Situ’s set Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Thirteen-Deity Mandala of Jnanadakini central Tibet 1375–1380
Thirteenth Karmapa, Dudul Dorje (1733–1797), from a Pelpung set of Masters of the Combined Kagyu Lineages Kham region, eastern Tibet ca. 1760s
Thirty-Five Buddhas of Confession Mongolia ca. 1914 Chimed, Gendendamba, Jügdür, and Khasgombo (all active early 20th century Mongolia)
Thirty-Two-Deity Mandala of Aksobhyavajra, the second painting of the Vajravali set commissioned in memory of Lama Dampa central Tibet, Sakya tradition 1375–1380
Three Saddle Carpets, from a set of twenty-four woven in the 1930s for the cavalry of Yabzhi Punkhang Central Tibet 1920–1930
Turning the Wheel of the Dharma, eighth painting from a set of nine depicting the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha Tibet 17th century Atelier of Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje (Tibetan, 1604–1674) or later followers
Two Stirrups Mongolian 16th–17th century
Urine Analysis, Painting 64 of the Tibetan Medical Paintings, Ulan Ude Set Lhasa, central Tibet early 20th-century copy of original from ca. 1687–1697
Vajradhara and Consort Nepal 1488
Vajradhara, Nairatmya, and Mahasiddhas Virupa and Kanha central Tibet ca. 1450
Vajradhatu (Diamond Realm) Mandala central Tibet 14th century
Vajrapani Mongolia late 19th century Tsend, Tavkhai Bor, Danjin, Baldangombo, and Khasgombo
Vasudhara Mandala Nepal dated 1777 (Samvat 897)
Victory over Mara Mongolia? 19th century
Wheel of Existence Tashicholing Temple, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 20th or 21st century
White Achala Segoma Lhakhang, Zhalu Monastery; Tsang region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) 14th century
White Chakrasamvara, from Situ’s set of The Twenty-Seven Tantric Deities Kham region, eastern Tibet ca. 18th century
Window No. 1 Tolung, Lhasa 2020 Penpa (b. 1974, Lhasa)
Woodblock for Printing Prayer Flags with Print Himalayan region 15th–19th century
Wutasi, the Five Pagoda Temple Höhhot, Inner Mongolia 1732
Zhabdrung Rinpoche Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651?) second-floor hallway, Tango Monastery 17th century (1688/90)
Zhitro Mandala 2000 Pema Namdol Thaye (American, b. 1967, Bhutan)
对面的山 [Opposing Mountains], 1986 Gonkar Gyatso (b. 1961, Lhasa)
“Cloud Faced” Black-Cloaked Mahakala Tibet 16th century either painted or inscribed by the Eighth Karmapa (1507–1554)
2020 Lhasa 2020 Nortse (b. 1963, Lhasa)
Achala Tangut Xixia, excavated from Kara Khoto 13th century
Achala, the Immovable One central Tibet ca. 1386
Amitabha central Tibet ca. mid-13th century
Amoghasiddhi central Tibet ca. mid-13th century
An example of a khüriye encampment: the Torghut Prince Sin Chin Gegeen’s camp at Khara Shar Mongolia before 1927
Anatomy, Painting 49 of the Tibetan Medical Paintings, Ulan Ude Set Lhasa, central Tibet early 20th century copy of original from ca. 1687–1697
Appliqué Cloth Thangka of Maitreya Gyantse 1437–1439 based on sketch of Sonam Peljor
Arhat Ajita China Yongle period (1402–1424)
Arhat, possibly Vanavasa Imperial Workshop, Nanjing or Beijing Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Avalokiteshvara in His Potala Pure Land Tibet late 18th–early 19th century
Avalokiteshvara, after Situ’s set of Eight Great Bodhisattvas Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Avalokiteshvara, traced from a composition by Konchok Pende of E (from Situ’s set of Eight Great Bodhisattvas) Kham region, eastern Tibet 19th century
Baruun Örgöö, Abatai Khan’s Yurt in Yekhe Khüriye Yekhe Khüriye, Mongolia late 19th century Aleksei Pozdneev (Russian, 1851–1920)
Bat-Tsagaan Assembly Hall Yekhe Khüriye, Mongolia mid-17th century Zanabazar (1635–1723)
Birth of Buddha Tibet 19th century
Buddha Kasyapa, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Maitreya (the Buddhas of the Past, Present, and Future) Phurdrup Monastery, Bhutan ca. 19th century Attributed to a sculptor of the Hephu tradition
Buddha Shakyamuni and Two Disciples Tibet 15th century attributed to Menla Dondrub
Buddha Shakyamuni, central painting from a set of seven paintings Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China dated 1660 Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje (Tibetan, 1604–1674)
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