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  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: two Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • The three Buddhist deities Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Yongquan monastery, Drum Mountain, near Fuzhou, China: Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Yongquan monastery, Drum Mountain, near Fuzhou, China: Buddhist priests. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Buddhist temple N branch of Pearl River Kwangtung China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Buddhist temple N branch of Pearl River Kwangtung China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A miniature stupa, a Buddhist hand bell and a bowl with blossoms. Colour woodcut, 1901.
  • Japanese funeral customs: a Buddhist monk kneels before a coffin; mourners kneel behind him. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A man (a Buddhist monk?) sitting cross-legged wearing robes and beads and holding a bell. Photograph, 1910/1930.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the Buddhist archway at Juyong Guan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the Buddhist archway at Juyong Guan. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • Dalai Lama (?) sitting on a lotus with the Buddha just above him and ten other Buddhist figures surrounding him. Lithograph.
  • Beijing, China: the Buddhist temple surrounded by gardens and low buildings, during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Temple interior with a Buddhist stupa on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
  • Japanese funeral customs: a kneeling, red-robed Buddhist chief priest chants before the picture of a family ancestor. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: in the house of the dead man, relatives share a meal with a Buddhist monk. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Cave paintings; a group of female musicians and dancers and Buddhist monks (?) of Indo-African origin. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Actors in role: a samurai confronts a Buddhist deity on the back of a giant wild boar. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
  • Two Buddhist elders: sBed-byed (Gopaka), holding a book (above); Mi-phyed (Abheda), holding a reliquary (below). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • Yama, Buddhist god of death, with the head of a buffalo bedecked with skulls and flames, stands on a bull crushing a man lying on his back. Distemper painting.
  • A Buddhist master (?) sitting on a chair under a tree, with books laid out on a table, while a young pupil kneels before him. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • The Buddhist guardian deity, Fudô Myôô, reading a government propaganda publication, enthusing about Western customs and modernisation: one attendant prepares meat, another warms sake in the sacred flame. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1874.