This fantastic creation carved from a single piece of wood, a common medium in [...]
A local protector god, Kula Kari occupies a mountain in Lhodrak, south of [...]
This painting, unusual in both size and composition, depicts the Bon Gods of the Five Sciences in a [...]
This painting is an unusual pastiche of Tibetan and Chinese imagery and painting techniques. The central figure, the bodhisattva and [...]
This depiction of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, does not follow the usual Indo-Tibetan textual descriptions of [...]
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Despite the severe damage inflicted to this representation of a bodhisattva during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), including [...]
The medium—ink on silk—is itself Chinese. The painting employs a classic Chinese monochromatic ink style (shui mo hua) with a [...]
Abheda is one of the sixteen arhats, the original disciples of the Buddha. His identifying attribute is a [...]
As a local mountain deity in Rebkong, Amdo Province, in northeastern Tibet, Amnye Cha Kyung is an important figure in the region’s sacred geography. Mountain deities were [...]
The meditation deity Akshobhyavajra, described in the Secret Assembly (Guhyasamaja) Tantra, symbolically unites the Five Buddha Families. Three-headed, six-armed, holding a vajra and bell, [...]
This banner is part of a set of works dedicated to the various deities found in the mandala of the Medicine Buddha. Agni is the ancient Indian god of fire [...]