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Thangka
Tibetan
cotton with opaque watercolor
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Maitreya, head
1st century - 2nd century
Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
stucco
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Dakini
15th century
Tibetan; Nepali
bronze
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Kubera, god of wealth, seated on a lion
15th century
Tibetan; Nepali
copper
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Arhat with Reliquary, (one of a pair)
15th century - 16th century
Japanese
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
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Arhat Meditating in a Cave (one of a pair)
15th century - 16th century
Japanese
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
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“Heads should be bowed to him,” quotation from the Avalokitesvara Sutra
circa 1660-1709
Yueshan Daozong (J. Etsuzan Dôshû; Ôbaku Etsuzan)
ink on paper
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Scene from the life of the Buddha: Buddha triumphs over the fire snake at the Fire Temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa (architectural fragment)
200-232
Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
grey schist
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Head of a Buddha
10th century
Indonesian
andesite stone
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Guardian King (Possibly To-wen, Guardian of the North)
1368-1644
Chinese
wood with traces of polychrome decoration
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Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Chinese, Guanyin), seated in a posture of royal ease
1368-1644
Chinese
wood with traces of gesso, polycrome, and gold paint
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Tibetan monk-scholar: print from inside conch trumpet
late 18th century - early 19th century
Tibetan; Nepali
woodblock print on paper
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Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel
18th century
Tibetan
red and black ink on paper
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Buddhist Nara
1955
Saitō Kiyoshi
color woodblock print on paper
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Asuka (Kudara Kannon) [Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; Japanese, Kannon bosatsu]
mid 20th century
Saitō Kiyoshi
color woodblock print on paper
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