Mandala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas Yulin Cave 25, east wall Middle Tang (781–848)
Four-armed Mahakala, left, and Remati, right Ron Wosel Puk, Tibet 1538
Protection From Disease Dolpo region, western Nepal ca. 1975
Woodblock Print of the Buddha with His Assembly China 18th - 19th century
Buddha’s Birth, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha Eastern Tibet, Kham Province, Derge Printing House after 1960
Pavilion of Raining Flowers (Yuhua Ge 雨花閣) Beijing Qing dynasty
Vimalakirti-nirdesha Sutra (Tibetan Ruler Listening to the Dharma) Mogao Cave 360, east wall, south side; Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China
Sutra Covers with the Eight Buddhist Treasures China Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Yongle period (1403–24)
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
Bodhisattva Suryabaskara Frontispiece from The Great Destroyer of the Thousand Foes (Mahasahasrapramardani) Sutra Manuscript Illuminated Manuscript Page Depicting Four Forms of Mahakala & Vaishravana Vairochana, From a Set of Initiation Cards (Taskali) Ratnasambhava, From a Set of Initiation Cards (Tsakali) 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 Painting on Prophylactics, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Principles, Illustration to the Medical Treatise the Blue Beryl, Chapters 23–28 Buddha’s Birth, from a set of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, Print from a woodblock Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali Buddha Vairochana Arhat Ajita Temple Banner with Seven Symbols of Royal Power and Offerings Chabui (r); album leaf from Album of the Bust Portraits of Yuan Empresses (Yuandai hou banshen xiang shou ce 元代后半身像手冊) probably Daidu (Beijing), China Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
Chakpori Medical College Tibet 1905 L. Austine Waddell
Changkya Rolpai Dorje China 18th century
Decanter, Cup, and Rhyton Tibet mid- to late 7th or 8th century partially gilt silver
Deities of the Padmakula Mandala Dunhuang, China period of Tibetan rule (ca. 781–848)
Demon-Binding Against Sickness Dolpo region, western Nepal ca. 1975
Illustrated Manuscript Depicting the Story of Water Nepal 17th century
Detail of Second Tashi Gomang Densatil Monastery, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) erected from 1360 for Drakpa Gyeltsen Pietro Francesco Mele (Italian, born ca. 1924)
Detail of Two Arhats and Heshang with a Woman Washing Daikon Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China dated 1660 Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje (Tibetan, 1604–1674)
Detail of Yongle Handscroll, “Delivering the Soul of Ming Taizu,” at Lingusi, Nanjing, with inscriptions in Chinese, Persian, Tay, Tibetan, and Mongolian China 1407
Drawing of Vajravarahi ca. 1687 Lhodrak Kukye Norbu Gyatso (active late 17th century)
Elephant-skin drum with stone base inside Longguodian (Hall of Dynastic Prosperity) China Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
First Folio from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and detail with Milarepa Lende Lang Puk 1540
First Folio from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and detail with Milarepa; Drakkar Taso; 1550–1555; xylographic print on paper; folio 4-1/8 x 20 in. (10.5 x 51 cm); British Library, OPB 19999a3 Drakkar Taso 1550–1555
Folios from a Biography of Milarepa Tibet 17th–18th century
Frontispiece from the Great Destroyer of the Thousand Foes (Mahasahasrapramardani) Sutra Manuscript Tibet ca. 13th–14th century
Frontispiece of the Chinese translation of Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra (Diamond Sutra) Dunhuang, present-day Gansu Province, China 11 May 868 CE
Garudasana Vishnu Changu Narayan Temple; Nepal ca. 7th–8th century
Pancharaksha (Five Protections ) illuminated manuscriptNepal 1138 Sri Ananda Buddhi, Nepalese (b. 12th century)
Going on Pilgrimage on All Fours and An Ascetic Sleeping on the Points of a Thousand Wooden Spikes India ca. 1940 Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)
Green Tara central Tibet ca. 1260s
Halo with etched Buddha at Awakening and Attendants Kashmir ca. 720
Handheld Prayer Wheel Tibet 19th–20th century
Incense burner with Yongle-period inscription in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit China 15th century; Yongle reign (1402–1424)
Interior view of the “Jung Ho [Ronghe] idol factory” (copper workshop) located near the Yonghegong Monastery, Beijing, China 1930s
Kalachakra Cosmology Illustrations Tibet 16th century
King of Lijiang, Mu Zeng (1598–1646; r. 1598–1624/46), Official Portrait Lijiang, China Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Lacquered Wood Duomu Pitcher with Gold Floral Designs China 19th–20th century
Lama Zhang Tangut Xixia 1032–1227
Livestock Charm primarily Dolpo region, Nepal since 1975
Mandala of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Several Different Aspects: Padmapani, Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara, Chintamanichakra Avalokiteshvara, and Amoghapasha at center Dunhuang, China period of Tibetan rule (ca. 781–848)
Mandala of Sarvavid Vairocana (Durgatiparisodhana from the Vajradhatu Mandala Series) Inner Mongolia or Beijing ca. 18th century
Manjughosha Emperor, Niched hanging shrine panel, Eastern Side Hall, Pavilion of Raining Flowers Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, and Vajrapani Imperial Workshop, Nanjing or Beijing Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Manjushri, torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
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
Monk’s Cap Ewer (Sengmao ju) Jingdezhen, China Yongle Period (1403–1424); collection of Shah Jahan where it was incised with date 1053 AH (or 1643–1644)
Mu Zeng as a Monk (木生白画像) Xitansi Monastery, Chicken Foot Mountain, Yunnan Province, China 17th century
Musical Notations of Mahakala Melodies Written by the Ninth Karmapa (Tib. Mgon po’i dbyangs yig Karma pa dgu pa’i phyag bris), pages 44 and 63 One Hundred and Eight Stupas arranged in a triangular shape on the hill China period (1038–1227)
Pakpa Lokeshvara Nepal 7th century
Palden Lhamo, torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
Panoramic Map of Mount Wutai Cifu Temple, Wutaishan, China 1846 Monk Lhundrub, engraver of Sanggai Aimag (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Panoramic View of Mount Wutai Mogao Cave 61, Dunhuang, northwestern Gansu Province, China ca. 948
Pensive Avalokiteshvara Imperial Workshop, Nanjing or Beijing Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Pensive Avalokiteshvara Swat 7th century
Pensive Avalokiteshvara on the back of Maitreya Statue Yecheng, Hebei Province 547
Prajnaparamita with Devotees; folio from a Shatasahasrika Prajnaparamita manuscript (The Perfection of Wisdom) Toling Monastery, Ngari region, western Tibet 11th century
Qubilai Khan; album leaf from Album of the Bust Portraits of Yuan Emperors (Yuandai di banshen xiang ce 元代帝半身像冊) probably Daidu (Beijing), China Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
Raktayamari Imperial Workshop, South China Ming Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Ratnasambhava central Tibet ca. mid-13th century
Roll of Mantras for a Prayer Wheel and Its Spindle Tibet ca. 12th–13th century
Sarvavid Vairochana Mandala Tibet 17th century
Scenes from the Early Life of the Buddha western Tibet or western Nepal 14th century
Seated Bodhisattva China late 13th–14th century
Seated Buddha Flanked by Maitreya and Avalokiteśvara Palola Shahi Kingdom April 23, 715
Second Jamyang Zhepa (1728–1791), torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
Set of Saddle Plates Tibet or China ca. 1400
Shakyamuni Flanked by His Main Disciples Lijiang, Yunnan Province 17th century Karmapa workshop
Shakyamuni, torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
Sketches of Floral Patterns and Mythological Creatures, pages from a sketchbook in a folding book (thyasaphu) format Tibet (and Nepal?) 1435 Jivarama (active in 15th century)
Standing Bodhisattva with Yongle-period inscription in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit on the base China 15th century, Yongle period (1403–1424)
Standing Buddha Shakyamuni Northern Asoka Stupa, Patan, Nepal ca. 9th century
Statue of Seated Vairochana, East Temple, Level 5 (Bumpa) of the Gyantse Kumbum Gyantse Kumbum, Tsang region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) ca. 1427–1440
Statue of the bodhisattva Manjushri with Yongle reign inscription in Chinese on the lotus base China 15th century; Yongle reign (1402–1424)
Stone carving of twenty-one buddhas and two bodhisattvas Manthal village of Skardu, Pakistan ca. late 8th century
Stone relief on a wall of Qianlong’s underground tomb Yuling 裕陵 Mausoleum, Eastern Tombs
Stūpas in Old Carvings India ca. 1940 Gendun Chopel (Tibetan, 1903–1951)
Subhasitaratnanidhi (Treasury of Good Sayings) Mongolian translation in phags pa (square script) Khocho 13th–14th century
The Black Treasury Manuscript, Dream of the Four Pillars Tibet ca. 1475
The Five Jina Buddhas Segoma Lhakhang, Zhalu Monastery; Tsang region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China) 14th century
The Ninth Karmapa (left) and the Sixth Zhamar (right), editor of the Jang (Lijiang) Kangyur, frontispiece of the catalog (karchak) by the Sixth Zhamar, vol. 109 of the Jang Satham (Lijiang) edition of the Tibetan Kangyur, folio 1a Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China 1621
The North Fort at Taku, China, 1860 North Fort at Taku, China 1860 Felice Beato (British, 1832–1909)
Vairochana Chokhor or Konchosum Lhakhang, Bumthang, Bhutan date unknown
Vairochana Drak Lhamo
Vairochana and the Eight Bodhisattvas Markham, Tibet (present-day TAR, China)
Vairochana of the Glacier Lake Jowo chapel, Jokhang Temple; Lhasa, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China)
View of Putuo Zongcheng Temple Chengde, China 1767–1771
Virupa China Yongle period (1402–1424)
Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara, with Xuanzang, a Monkey-Headed Protector, and a White Horse Cave 2 of East Thousand-Buddha Grottoes; Tangut Kingdom (Xixia) (present-day Guazhou, Gansu Province, China) ca. 12th–13th century
White Stupa, known as Precious Stupa of Great Compassion and Longevity, and its surroundings Great Precious Stupa Cloister Monastery; Mount Wutai, Shanxi Province, China 1301, renovated in 1407
Wind-Powered Prayer Wheel (mani lung khor) Tibet before 1920
Xijindu Stupa Gate Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province dated 1311
Red-Robed Monk of the Western Regions 1304 Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322)
Zhenjue Temple, the Five Pagoda Temple Beijing, China 1473
“Long Live the Emperor” Tablet Longguodian (Hall of Dynastic Prospertity), Quantsi; Drotsang, Tsongka, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (present-day Ledu county, Qinghai Province, China) 1427
“Cloud Faced” Black-Cloaked Mahakala Tibet 16th century either painted or inscribed by the Eighth Karmapa (1507–1554)
A Case of Tibetan Kangyur Nanjing, Imperial Workshop 1410 (eighth year of Yongle reign)
Achala Tangut Xixia, excavated from Kara Khoto 13th century
Amitayus, torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
Amoghasiddhi central Tibet ca. mid-13th century
Arhat Ajita China Yongle period (1402–1424)
Arhat, possibly Vanavasa Imperial Workshop, Nanjing or Beijing Yongle period (r. 1403–1424)
Avalokiteshvara seated in the Maharajajila posture China ca. 10th–13th century
Avalokiteshvara, torma butter sculpture Labrang Monastery, Amdo region, eastern Tibet (Gansu Province, China) 2014
Banquet Set with Ewer, Decanter, and Plate Tibet Yarlung dynasty, 600–800
Bodhisattva China 13th century
Buddha Shakyamuni Bhinche Baha, Patan, Nepal 8th–9th century
Buddha Shakyamuni, central painting from a set of seven paintings Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China dated 1660 Tenth Karmapa, Choying Dorje (Tibetan, 1604–1674)
Buddha Vairochana Bimda Temple; near Jyekundo (present-day Qinghai Province, China) 806
Celestial Musician (Kinnara) Playing a Pipa (Lute) Tibetan Empire 608–866
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