Buddhist heritage
Discover in this gallery the symbols, the texts, the architecture and the traditions of Buddhism around the World.
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24 objekt
Travel photos Malaysia. Air Itam. Kek-Lok-Si temple on the island of Penang. Pagoda of the Ten Thousand Buddhas (1930); Made of plastic in color, high
Das Bild zeigt den leiblichen Tod des Buddhas, der ihn in das vollkommene Nirwana (Nehan-zu) führt. Shakyamuni liegt umringt von Trauernden aller Existenzstufen. Selbst die Natur reagiert mit welken Blättern und schäumenden Wellen auf seinen Tod. Das Bild…
The film shows the common confessional of monks of the Gelugpa sect on the occasion of the Tibetan Monastic Institute in Rikon being consecrated. The ceremony is conducted by LING RINPOCHE in the presence of TRIJANG RINPOCHE, the two spiritual teachers of…
The Dalai Lama is the supreme authority of the Tibetans and the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. After him, the second highest authority of Tibet is the Panchen Lama. Both acknowledge the reincarnation of the other into a new person after their respe…
Voice and instrumental music, religious and popular of Nepal and Tibet collected by anthropologist Alexander William Macdonald during scientific research missions in 1970 and 1971.
The Royal procession to the ploughing ceremony. King Suddhodana walks under a white parasol with courtiers behind him and followed by the oxen for ploughing. Queen Maha-Maya and Prince Siddhattha ride behing upon an elephant
Rangoon, Burma. Tourists in front of a pagoda with Buddha statues; Black and white glass, high
The controversy about some children who are considered reincarnations of lamas is a major conflict between the Tibetans and the Chinese government.
by V. Fausbøll.
Pojke som slår på trumma. Se Ethnos 1952, R. Nebesky de Wojkowitz: Tibetan Drum Divination, Ngamo, sid. 152.; Lama novics beating a drum of the type used by the various sects of Tibetan Buddhism as well as by the "white bön".
Lettering: Hill, the Kings Buddhist temple, 1865 1866. Bears Thomson's negative number: "1108"
Thai Buddhist Manuscript inscribed on palm-leaves with a metal stylus. The cover boards are finely painted in gold on black lacquer with scrolling foliage. The fore-edge of the palm leaves is gilded with a centre band of vermillion bordered by a delicatel…
Kamakura. Kōtokuin temple. Great Buddha (Daibutsu, representations of the Buddha Amitabha in sitting meditation posture) (started in 1252; Ōno-Gorōemon, Tanji-Hisatomo). Bronze; H. 11.4 m, weight 93 t. Recording with small boy
Sound recordings with indits collects in Tibet by Matthieu Ricard and Mireille Helffer (director of honorary research at the CNRS) in 1986, prs of Tibtaines nuns, during the Buddhist ritual of Gcod.
Inscripció: (date, 1826)
Collapsible long trumpet made in three telescopic parts of hand-hammered copper tube, with brass cuffs and garland. The integral mouthpiece is missing. Brass ring-plate on bell flare. Dung-chen (""long trumpets"") are associated with t…
En mandala är ett kosmiskt diagram, en slags andlig karta som framställer tantra, den hemliga läran inom tibetansk buddhism. Den vanligaste framställningen av en mandala är den målade tvådimentionella, men det finns även 3-dimentionella mandala. (utställ…