HUA-YEN-CHING (BUDDHA-AVATAMSAKA-NAMAMAHA-VAIPULY A-SUTRA)

This sculpture depicts a Buddha gracefully standing on a shallow lotus pedestal, the Buddha likely the Buddha Sakyamuni (the Historical Buddha) though possibly the Buddha Dipankara...

This sutra fragment (mounted as a hanging scroll) is a remnant of a set thought to have been originally dedicated to the temple Senpukuji in Osaka. The text comes from the Flower O...

Carved in gray limestone in Thailand in the seventh or early eighth century, this stone sculpture depicts the head of a Buddha, probably the Buddha Sakyamuni, the Historical Buddha...

Of the numerous sutras (Buddhist texts) brought to Japan, the Lotus Sutra (Japanese: Myōhō-renge-kyō; Sanskrit: Saddharma-pundarika sutra) became the most popular and influential. ...

This painting is composed of three vignettes from the Buddha’s life. The primary scene begins in the top right corner of the painting. It shows the Buddha ascended to the Trayas...

Originally a section of a handscroll, or possibly a page from an accordion-fold album, this calligraphic work represents text from a Buddhist sutra, specifically, text from the Ksi...

The central figure in this Tibetan Buddhist painting, or thangka, is Bhaisajyaguru—the buddha of healing and medicine known more commonly as the Medicine Buddha. Seated on an elabo...

Printed during the twelfth century, this scroll, together with the seven others from the set, contain the text of the Lotus Sutra (Chinese, Miaofa Lianhua Jing; Sanskrit, Saddharma...