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tibetan buddhist paintings in the metropolitan museum of art, manuscripts

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Buddhist art, 12th-century, six-armed green goddess has one hand raised in abhaya mudra and holds a bow and arrow in her upper hands- from a Buddhist Manuscript (cropped)

Buddhist art, 12th-century, six-armed green goddess has one hand raise...

Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Karnata-Malla period. Distemper on palm leaf, 2 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. (5.3 x 27.3 cm). This seated, six-armed green goddess has one hand raised in abhaya... More

Chakrasamvara Mandala - Public domain dedication image

Chakrasamvara Mandala - Public domain dedication image

Chakrasamvara Mandala. Thakuri–Early Malla periods, Nepal, Kathmandu Valley. 26 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (67.3 x 50.2 cm). This ritual diagram (mandala) is conceived as the cosmic palace of the wrathful Chakrasamvara ... More

Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript

Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript

Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Karnata-Malla period. Distemper on palm leaf, 2 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. (5.3 x 27.3 cm). This seated, six-armed green goddess has one hand raised in abhaya... More

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara, back

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara, back

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara (The Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion), back. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Distemper on wood, 2 3/32 x 17 7/16 in. (5.3 x 44.3 cm).

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara, front

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara, front

Manuscript Cover with Avalokiteshvara (The Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion), front. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Distemper on wood, 2 3/32 x 17 7/16 in. (5.3 x 44.3 cm).

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 1

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 1

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 1. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Distemper on wood, 2 1/4 x 12 15/16 in. (5.7 x 32.9 cm).

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 2

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 2

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Scenes, 2. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Distemper on wood, 2 1/4 x 12 15/16 in. (5.7 x 32.9 cm). At the far left, a bodhisattva adores Prajnaparamita, the Goddess of Transc... More

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 1

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 1

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 1. Tibet. Distemper and gold on wood, 4 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (10.5 x 35.9 cm). On the upper cover, Shadakshari Lokesvara is flanked by Maitreya to ... More

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 2

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 2

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs, 1. Tibet. Distemper and gold on wood, 4 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (10.5 x 35.9 cm). On the upper cover, Shadakshari Lokesvara is flanked by Maitreya to ... More

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha. Tibet, Distemper and gold on cloth, Image: 19 1/2 x 13 15/16 in. (49.5 x 35.4 cm) Framed: 32 13/16 x 21 11/16 in. (83.3 x 55.1 cm). Atisha was the abbot of the great Vikrama... More