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Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations

At The Met Fifth Avenue
February 8–June 8, 2014

Exhibition Objects

29 Objects

Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara

Tenzing Rigdol (born Kathmandu 1982)

Date: 2013 Medium: Ink, pencil, acrylic, and pastel on paper Accession Number: 2013.627

Dissected Buddha

Gonkar Gyatso (born Lhasa 1961)

Date: 2011 Medium: Collage, stickers, pencil and colored pencil and acrylic on paper Accession Number: SL.4.2014.5.1

Seated Buddha Reaching Enlightenment, Flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

Date: late 10th–11th century Medium: Black schist Accession Number: 20.58.16

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Date: early to mid-12th century Medium: Distemper and gold on cloth Accession Number: 1993.479

Buddha Shakyamuni

Date: 12th century Medium: Brass with colored pigments Accession Number: 2012.458

Stele with Eight Great Events from the Life of the Buddha

Date: 10th century Medium: Black schist with traces of gilding Accession Number: 2009.541

Model of the Mahabodhi Temple

Date: 12th century Medium: Quartz-muscovite-chlorite-talc phyllite Accession Number: 2006.218

Votive Plaque: Seated Buddha in a Temple

Date: ca. 9th–10th century Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 1982.462.6

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master

Date: early 12th century Medium: Opaque watercolor, black carbon-based ink, and mineral- and vegetable-based pigments on palm leaf Accession Number: 2001.445j

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master

Date: early 12th century Medium: Ofpaque watercolor, black carbon-based ink, and mineral- and vegetable-based pigments on palm leaf Accession Number: 2001.445a

Pair of Manuscript Covers, Each with Five Deities

Date: ca. late 11th century Medium: Distemper and gilt on wood Accession Number: 2020.290a, b

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Three Deities and Three Hierarchs

Date: ca. 12th century Medium: Distemper and gold on wood Accession Number: 1995.569.4a, b

Crowned Buddha

Date: 10th–11th century Medium: Bronze inlaid with silver, lapis lazuli, and rock crystal Accession Number: 1993.311a, b

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, Buddha of the Future

Date: 11th or early 12th century Medium: Distemper on cloth Accession Number: 1989.284

Amoghasiddhi, the Buddha of the Northern Pure Land

Date: late 11th century Medium: Mineral and organic pigments on cloth Accession Number: SL.4.2014.3.1

Ratnasambhava, the Buddha of the Southern Pure Land

Date: late 11th Century Medium: Mineral and organic pigments on cloth Accession Number: SL.33.2017.2.1

Green Tara Dispensing Boons to Ecstatic Devotees: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)

Mahavihara Master

Date: early 12th century Medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf Accession Number: 2001.445i

Tara

Date: 12th century Medium: Bronze with silver inlay Accession Number: 1987.142.346

Ashtamahabhaya Tara, Savior from the Eight Perils

Date: late 12th century Medium: Mineral and organic pigments on cloth

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master

Date: early 12th century Medium: Opaque watercolor, black carbon-based ink, and mineral- and vegetable-based pigments on palm leaf Accession Number: 2001.445c

Mahakala Seated in Royal Ease

Date: 12th century Medium: Stone with polychrome Accession Number: 2015.500.4.17

Twelve-Armed Chakrasamvara and His Consort Vajravarahi

Date: ca. 12th century Medium: Phyllite Accession Number: 1988.392

Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath

Date: 11th century Medium: Black stone Accession Number: 20.43

Mahapratisara, the Buddhist Protectress

Date: 10th century Medium: Black stone Accession Number: 1991.108

Mahakala

Date: 11th–12th century Medium: Black stone Accession Number: 1996.465

Manjuvajra Mandala

Date: 11th century Medium: Black stone Accession Number: 57.51.6

Shiva as Mrityunjaya, the Conquerer of Death

Date: 12th century Medium: Black stone Accession Number: 1991.421

Shrine Relief Fragment Depicting Ashtamahabhaya Tara, the Buddhist Savioress

Date: 10th–11th century Medium: Wood Accession Number: 1994.488

Chakrasamvara Mandala

Date: ca. 1100 Medium: Distemper on cloth Accession Number: 1995.233
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