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Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

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Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

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Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2011.

Temple Banner (Bilampau) Depicting Kavi Kumara's Legend

Dated by inscription 1864

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2010.

Temple Banner (Bilampau) Depicting Avalokiteshvara's Legends Described in the Newari Version of the Gunakarandavyuha Sutra

17th century

Detail of Temple Banner with Seven Symbols of Royal Power and Offerings; Tibet; 19th century; p…

Temple Banner with Seven Symbols of Royal Power and Offerings

19th century

Side A: Varunani. Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2008

Two-sided Festival Banner of Varunani and Varahi

17th or 18th century

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, C2006.42.2

Avalokiteshvara Enshrined in a Temple

Dated by inscription, 1850

Illuminated Manuscript Page Depicting Four Forms of Mahakala and Vaishravana; China; 17th centu…

Illuminated Manuscript Page Depicting Four Forms of Mahakala and Vaishravana

17th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2013

Illustrated Manuscript Depicting the Story of Water

17th century

Architectural Detail Depicting the Goddess Guhyakali; Nepal; 17th century; wood; Rubin Museum o…

Architectural Detail Depicting the Goddess Guhyakali

17th century

Model of the Mahabodhi Temple; Eastern India, probably Bodhgaya; ca. 11th century; stone (serpe…

Model of the Mahabodhi Temple

ca. 11th century

Buchung Nubgya (b. 1979, Shigatse; lives and works in New York); Life Story of Nangsa Wobum; Ne…

Life Story of Nangsa Wobum

Buchung Nubgya

2020

Photography by David De Armas Photography. The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. 2016.

Situ Panchen (1700-1774); From a Palpung set of Masters of the Combined Kagyu Lineages

late 18th century, ca. 1760s

Indrabhuti, from a set of the Eight Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas); Kham Province, Eastern Tibet; 1…

Indrabhuti, from a set of the Eight Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)

19th century