Buddhist iconography

Himalayan Art Resources features thousands of artworks from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India, China and Mongolia. The site presents art from leading private and museum collections, accompanied by scholarship, cataloging and interpretation.

Wheel of Life — the embodiment of samsara in the Buddhist view in the form of a circle. The Buddhist doctrine of cause and effect, which Buddha realized under the bodhi tree.

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The 9-foot Dorje Shugden statue in Kechara Forest Retreat. Click on image to enlarge 阅读中文文章，点击这里：https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/?p=185278 The Kechara Buddhis...

This thangka depicts the Tibetan astrological diagram that Manjushri is said to have inscribed on the under shell of the tortoise. In the inner circle are the Tibetan numerals one to nine arranged

SATURN Lord of Time turns RETROGRADE on Good Friday in SAGittarius. As Saturn moves slowly backwards it is like going through a wormhole or time tunnel, we get to go back to the past to change the …

Tricycle Jeff Watt 25 April 2013 Buddhist artistic traditions of the Himalayas, Tibet, and Central Asia are believed to follow established guidelines for determining body proportions in figu…