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Album of the Yongzheng Emperor in Costumes 3

Album of the Yongzheng Emperor in Costumes 3

The Emperor depicted as a Tibetan Lama. From Album of the Yongzheng Emperor in Costumes, by anonymous court artists, Yongzheng period (1723—35). One of 14 album leaves, colour on silk. The Palace Museum, Beijing.

Buddhist Paradise of Amitabha, Tang Dynasty - Tang Dynasty

Buddhist Paradise of Amitabha, Tang Dynasty - Tang Dynasty

The Buddhist Paradise of Amitabha, a painted mural from Cave 172 of Dunhuang, Gansu province, China, Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD)

Chang Sheng-wen 001 - Song Dynasty

Chang Sheng-wen 001 - Song Dynasty

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Chinesischer Maler des 11. Jahrhunderts (II) 001 - Song Dynasty

Chinesischer Maler des 11. Jahrhunderts (II) 001 - Song Dynasty

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Chinesischer Maler des 8. Jahrhunderts 001

Chinesischer Maler des 8. Jahrhunderts 001

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Chinesischer Maler von 1238 001 - Song Dynasty

Chinesischer Maler von 1238 001 - Song Dynasty

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Liu Songnian, Luohan - Song Dynasty

Liu Songnian, Luohan - Song Dynasty

Luohan, by Chinese artist Liu Songnian. Ink and color on silk.中文: 南宋劉松年所繪《羅漢圖》

Luohan Laundering, by Lin Tinggui, 1178 AD - Song Dynasty

Luohan Laundering, by Lin Tinggui, 1178 AD - Song Dynasty

Luohan Laundering, by Lin Tinggui, painted in 1178 during the Song Dynasty; ink and color on a silk hanging scroll, measuring 111.8 cm (44 in) in height and 53.1 cm (20.8 in) in width. In the painting, five Chi... More

Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni - Song Dynasty

Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni - Song Dynasty

Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). The teaching of Buddha Sakyamuni. Français : Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni.

Buddha 8th-century painting on silk, Chinesischer Maler des 8. Jahrhunderts 001 (cropped)

Buddha 8th-century painting on silk, Chinesischer Maler des 8. Jahrhun...

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Figure detail, from- Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni (cropped)

Figure detail, from- Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamu...

Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). The teaching of Buddha Sakyamuni. Français : Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni.

Sakyamuni detail, Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni (cropped) - Song Dynasty

Sakyamuni detail, Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni ...

Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). The teaching of Buddha Sakyamuni. Français : Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni.

Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni (cropped) - Song Dynasty

Zhang Shengwen. L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni (cropped) - Song D...

Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). The teaching of Buddha Sakyamuni. Français : Zhang Shengwen (Chang Sheng-wen). L'enseignement de Bouddha Sakyamuni.

丁观鹏莲座大士像轴

丁观鹏莲座大士像轴

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药师如来像页

药师如来像页

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GuanYin of a Thousand Arms and Eyes - Song Dynasty

GuanYin of a Thousand Arms and Eyes - Song Dynasty

Guan Yin represented with several bodhisattva heads topped by a Buddha head. the figure is standing on a lotus pedestal held up by four heavenly kings. A pair of bodhisattva attendants flank the figure on each... More

Liu Songnian-Luohan - A painting of a man and a dog

Liu Songnian-Luohan - A painting of a man and a dog

Luohan, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 117 x 55.8 cm. Located at the National Palace Museum, Taibei. One of a set of several. 中文:羅漢圖 - 立軸 - 绢本 淡设色 纵117厘米 横55.8厘米 台北國立故宫博物院藏

Liu Songnian-Luohan2 - A painting of a man sitting on a rock

Liu Songnian-Luohan2 - A painting of a man sitting on a rock

Luohan, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 118.1 x 56 cm. Located at the National Palace Museum, Taibei. One of a set of several. 中文:羅漢圖 - 立軸 - 绢本 淡设色 纵118.1厘米 横56厘米

Zhang ShengWen-Dali Buddist Volume Literati Painting

Zhang ShengWen-Dali Buddist Volume Literati Painting

中文:大理國梵像圖卷,紙本設色,縱30.4厘米,橫16.655米.English: Kingdom of Dali Buddhist Volume of Paintings. Scroll, Ink and color on paper. 30.4 cm high. Located in the National Palace Museum, Taibei. The entire work is 16.655 me... More

Fire Lance And Grenade 10th Century Dunhuang - A painting of a person sitting in a lotus position

Fire Lance And Grenade 10th Century Dunhuang - A painting of a person ...

First illustration of Fire Lance and a Grenade, 10th Century, Dunhuang. Appears to be a detail from an illustration of Sakyamuni's temptation by Mara, with the demons at upper right threatening with the fire l... More

Two Patriarchs - 中國歷史圖片,維基媒體

Two Patriarchs - 中國歷史圖片,維基媒體

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丁元公佛像轴
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Bruxelles Baozhi Shanxi 02 10 2011

Bruxelles Baozhi Shanxi 02 10 2011

Français : La métamorphose du moine Baozhi. Peinture murale provenant d'un temple, Chine du Nord (Shanxi-Hebei ), 17ème siècle. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH), Parc du Cinquantenaire, Bruxelles. Engl... More

Bujun Shiban - Public domain portrait painting

Bujun Shiban - Public domain portrait painting

Portrait of Bujun Shiban (絹本著色無準師範像, kenpon chakushoku Bujun Shiban zō) from Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto dated to the Southern Song Dynasty, 1238. Bujun Shiban (1177–1249) (alt reading: Bushun Shiban, ch: Wuzhun Shifan) ... More

Chinese mural of a bodhisattva, ink and color on plaster, c. 952, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Chinese mural of a bodhisattva, ink and color on plaster, c. 952, Hono...

Chinese mural of a bodhisattva, ink and color on plaster, c. 952, Honolulu Academy of Arts, dated to the Later Zhou Period.

Guanyin of the Tidal Cave, Qing Dynasty

Guanyin of the Tidal Cave, Qing Dynasty

Guanyin in the Tidal Sound cave at Mt Potala from the book "In Celebration of the Amitabha Buddha" (無量壽佛會慶圖冊). She waves a willow branch to sprinkle the water from the vase and reduce the suffering of people. ... More

Kṣitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways (Stein Painting 19)

Kṣitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways (Stein Painting 19)

Kṣitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways Northern Song dynasty, dated the 4th year of Jianlong (963) Dunhuang Ink and colours on silk. Painted area: H. 56.1cm; W. 51.5cm; Stein painting 19. Ch.Iviii.003

Liang Kai, Shâkyamuni sortant des montagnes

Liang Kai, Shâkyamuni sortant des montagnes

French: Shâkyamuni sortant des montagnes. Liang Kai, encre et couleurs sur soie, English: Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains (出山释迦图), by Chinese artist Liang Kai. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 117.... More

Liang Kai-Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains

Liang Kai-Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains

Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains (出山释迦图), by Chinese artist Liang Kai. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 117.6 x 51.9 cm. Tokyo National Museum. See Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three Thousand Yea... More

Manjusri Debates Vimalakirti Dunhuang Mogao Caves

Manjusri Debates Vimalakirti Dunhuang Mogao Caves

Manjusri Bodhisattva debates Vimalakirti. Scene from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. Dunhuang, Mogao Caves, China, Tang Dynasty.

Vimalakirti Debates Manjusri Dunhuang Mogao Caves

Vimalakirti Debates Manjusri Dunhuang Mogao Caves

Vimalakirti Bodhisattva debates Manjusri Bodhisattva. Scene from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. Dunhuang, Mogao Caves, China, Tang Dynasty.

Banner with Bodhisattva, possibly Mahamayuri

Banner with Bodhisattva, possibly Mahamayuri

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Zhang ShengWen-Dali Buddist Volume Section - Song Dynasty

Zhang ShengWen-Dali Buddist Volume Section - Song Dynasty

Kingdom of Dali Buddhist Volume of Paintings (portion). Scroll, Ink and color on paper. 30.4 cm high. Located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The entire work is 16.655 meters. It was created in the Kin... More

Buddha by Wu Changshuo - A painting of a woman in a red dress

Buddha by Wu Changshuo - A painting of a woman in a red dress

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Attendant Bodhisattvas, China, Later Zhou to Northern Song dynasty, mid 900s AD, believed from Cisheng Temple, Wenxian, Henan, ink and colors on plaster - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC07100

Attendant Bodhisattvas, China, Later Zhou to Northern Song dynasty, mi...

Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Life stories of Tsongkhapa, Tibet, 1644-1911 AD - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04493

Life stories of Tsongkhapa, Tibet, 1644-1911 AD - Sichuan Provincial M...

Exhibit in the Sichuan Provincial Museum (四川省博物院), also known as the Sichuan Museum, 251 Huanhua S Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. This work is old e... More

Dunhuang Mara Budda 2 - A painting of a person sitting in a lotus position

Dunhuang Mara Budda 2 - A painting of a person sitting in a lotus posi...

Русский: Мара испытывает Будду. 10в. деталь. ГимеItaliano: Budda Mara Dunhuang, dipinto del X Sec. d.C.

Dunhuang Mara Budda - A painting of a large group of people

Dunhuang Mara Budda - A painting of a large group of people

Русский: Мара испытывает Будду. 10 в. Дуньхуан Муз Гимэ Public domain photograph of renaissance painting, 15th-16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gautama Buddha 10th-century painting on silk detail, Dunhuang Mara Budda (cropped)

Gautama Buddha 10th-century painting on silk detail, Dunhuang Mara Bud...

Русский: Мара испытывает Будду. 10 в. Дуньхуан Муз Гимэ Public domain image of Chinese people, China history, government, and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zhou Jichan-Rock Bridge at Tiantai Mountain - Song Dynasty

Zhou Jichan-Rock Bridge at Tiantai Mountain - Song Dynasty

Rock Bridge at Tiantai Mountain - Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 109.4 x 52.4 cm. This is part of the 500 Luohan collection. 中文:五百羅漢圖 - 軸 - 絹本設色. 縱109.4厘米. 全橫52.4米. 美國弗利爾美術館藏.

Zhou Jichang-Luohan Laundering

Zhou Jichang-Luohan Laundering

Luohan Laundering - Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 118 x 53.1 cm. This is part of the 500 Luohan collection. 中文:五百羅漢圖 - 軸 - 絹本設色. 縱118厘米. 全橫53.1米. 美國弗利爾美術館藏.

Buddhist paintings from the important silk-road temples of Dun Huang

Buddhist paintings from the important silk-road temples of Dun Huang

Buddhist paintings from the important silk-road temples of Dun Huang: *more information: International Dunhuang Project* Source: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4548321... More

Vimalakirti debating Manjusri, Tang Dynasty

Vimalakirti debating Manjusri, Tang Dynasty

Vimalakirti in debate with the bodhisattva Manjusri, detail from a wall painting in Cave 103 of Dunhuang, Gansu province, China, dated to the Tang Dynasty, 8th century

十六罗汉图因揭陀尊者 - A painting of a man smoking a cigarette

十六罗汉图因揭陀尊者 - A painting of a man smoking a cigarette

中文:貫休《十六罗汉图》中的因揭陀尊者

Trimmed AN00000116 001 l British Museum

Trimmed AN00000116 001 l British Museum

While Śākyamuni's fasting in a cave elsewhere, the Five Companions (aka the Five Disciples, 五比丘) run into a thunderstorm depicted as a thunder god (雷公, Lei gong) riding on a cloud, with a ring of drums (連鼓).