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This woodblock print would have been a relatively affordable image that a Mongol traveler might have brought back as a souvenir from a pilgrimage to Wutaishan, a holy mountain in North China sacred to Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists [...]
This jewel of a sculpture portrays the most popular and widely venerated female deity in Himalayan Buddhist culture, Green Tara [...]
In Tibetan Buddhism prayer beads are used to count the recitations of prayers and devotional invocations (mantras), a process that allows the practitioner to accumulate merit [...]
This multi-artist work is a contemporary, secular interpretation of the Wheel of Existence, a visual representation of Buddhist beliefs about life, death, and rebirth [...]
Padmasambhava, “lotus-born,” an Indian teacher said to have been miraculously born in a lotus flower, is revered by all Tibetan Buddhist traditions [...]
This painting is part of a lavish set depicting each of the Fifty-One Deities of the Mandala of the Medicine Buddha, who is the focus of practices promoting health [...]
This silk appliqué figure is one of eight manifestations of Padmasambhava around a larger central image of the Buddhist master as a part of a giant silk appliqué [...]
Over the course of his legendary life, Padmasambhava, known as the Second Buddha in Tibet, gained many names associated with his virtuous actions at different times [...]
In Tibetan Buddhist culture, those who are unable to read are instructed to spin a “wheel” filled with thousands of inscribed mantras, or mani, written on paper tightly wrapped around a central pole inside a cylinder that encases them [...]
Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion and the patron deity of Tibet, presides over his celestial dwelling of Mount Potalaka, believed to be an island off the coast of Western India [...]
Buddha Amitabha, or Buddha of Boundless Light, presides over the pure realm of Sukhavati (the Realm of Bliss), one of five buddha fields, each with a resident guiding Buddha [...]