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15th century

Tibetan; Nepali

bronze

Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel

18th century

Tibetan

red and black ink on very thin paper

Teacher and adept in a garden, with a yab-yum figure

18th century - 19th century

Tibetan; Chinese

ink, gouache, and gold on cotton

An imaginary portrait of the Tibetan monk and scholar Go Lotsawa (1392–1481)

18th century - 19th century

Tibetan

ink on silk?

Bodhisattva (Jokaisho Bosatsu): esoteric Buddhist iconographic drawing

mid 12th century

Takuma Tametō

handscroll fragment, ink and color on paper

Gelugpa Merit Field, centered on Tsongkhapa, with lineage teachers above and to the sides, and meditational deities (yidam) and protectors (dharmapala) below.

1800-1850

Tibetan; Nepali

gouache and gold on cotton

Mandala of a Yabyum deity, housed in a chorten (stupa), surrounded by other deities and figures from the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon

early 18th century - mid 18th century

Nepali

ink, gouache and gold on cotton

Prayer Wheel (Mani Wheel)

mid 19th century - early 20th century

Tibetan

metal and wood

13th century

Tibetan; Nepali

bronze with inlaid turquoise and coral

19th century?

Tibetan; Nepali

ink, gouache, and gold pigment on cotton

Portrait of an Rölpai Dorje (1717–1786), Lama of the Seal

1736-1795

Tibetan

ink, mineral pigments, and gold on paper

Four seated Buddhas, in dhyana mudra

12th century

Khmer

bronze

Yungdron Dorje Pal (1284–1365) subduing a wrathful demon while attended by a meditation deity, Mahakala and other monks.

1700-1750

Tibetan

ink and gouache on cotton

Six-armed Bodhisattva Mañjusri, standing, with two celestial attendants

17th century

Indian

bronze

Bodhisattva Amoghapasa (Avalokitesvara of the never-empty noose)

n.d.

Artist Unknown

bronze