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Images from the collections

Images referencing Buddhist

61 images from works
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • (Left side) The Bodhisatta goes to the Nanda Park in th
  • Thai Buddhist Manuscript inscribed on plam-leaves with a me
  • The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with his attendants (left)
  • A bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom right)
  • (Left) Prince Siddhattha (Bodhisatta) asks his father
  • Illustrated Sinhalese covers (inside) showing the events between the Bodhisatta's renunciation and the request by Brahna Sahampati that he teach the Docrine after he becomes a Buddha.
  • Bodhisattva in heaven with accompanying angels (detail of bottom left)
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating u
  • The ploughing ceremony with the baby Bodhisatta mediating

Works from the collections

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    The procession to the ploughing ceremony

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    MS Thai 3, four leaves

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    Burmese-Pali Manuscript.

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    The monk Phra Malai converses with Indra in heaven (right) and a bodhisattva in heaven with his attendants (left)

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    (Right) The devas ask the Bodhisatta

Related topics

God
MS BURMESE 22
MS THAI 3
L0030813
L0030814
MS THAI 4
BURMESE-PALI
OR. MS. 22
MS THAI 2
Dominion of Ceylon

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