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Thin Raku Sake cup

Stoneware bowl

Koichi Onozawa(小野澤　弘一)

A Twenty- Five Deity Mandala of Marici, surrounded by the lineage of Tara Circa 1375-1400 Central Tibet. Distemper on cloth. (via Bonhams)

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Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Lotus Pond. E early 17th century, Japan. Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e, hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”). Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015. MET

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Plum Branch, Francisco Pons Arnau

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Frantisek Kupka, The Beginning of Life, 1900

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Tantric Banners. Yama Dharmaraja, Las-Mkhan Putra Min Srin, Vajrabhairava, Beg-tse, Brahma, Pehar and his Four Companions, Panjaranatha Lord of the Ten, Cimara, Vajrasadhu (top to bottom). Tibet. 1800s.

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Frantisek Kupka, The Beginning of Life, 1900

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Partitura tibetana.

Una notación más intuitiva que exacta, pero mucho más artística que la conocemos. Es posible que con un poco de imaginación hasta podamos tararear la melodía.

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‘A Lady Playing the Tanpura’ (circa 1735). Ink, watercolour and gold on paper. Artist unknown (India).

Image and text courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Kyoogokoku-ji Temple. The Twelve Devas. Gatten (Sun Deva), Nitten (Sun Deva), Fûten (Wind Deva), Suiten (Water Deva), Rasetsuten, Enmaten, Katen (Fire Deva), Taishakuten, Ishanaten, Bishamonten (top to bottom). 1127.

The Twelve Devas are the gods of the twelve directions in Esoteric Buddhism, including the four quarters and four semi-quarters, up and down, and the sun and moon, and are the guardians of Esoteric Buddhist monasteries. These scrolls were formerly owned by Kyoogokoku-ji (To-ji) Temple and, along with the images of the Five Vidya-Rajas (Godaisonzo), were used in the annual, Mishio New Year’s ceremony of esoteric prayers, held at Shingon-in in the Imperial Palace.