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SACRED VISIONS
EARLY PAINTINGS FROM CENTRAL TIBET
Steven M. Kossak & Jane Casey Singer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY USA Oct. 6, 1998 - Jan 17, 1999
Reitberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland Feb. 14 - May 16, 1999 

 

It is a great honor for Asianart.com to host a selection of images and captions from the exhibition Sacred Visions. We would like to thank the Metropolitan Museum and the curators of the exhibition, Steven Kossak and Jane Casey Singer, for their generous permission to use their caption texts and the material from the Metropolitan Museum collection. We are also grateful to the many private collectors who consented to have their paintings reproduced on-line as well.

The fact that many of the paintings in this epochal show are not seen in these pages does not mean that Asianart.com will not attempt to show these as well in the future. We are in the process of contacting other lenders in pursuit of permission to enlarge this sampling still further. We expect to update this exhibition in the near future.

We urge visitors to turn to the excellent catalogue for the further text entries by the curators and the entire corpus of more than 60 paintings.


all images © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Amitayus
Amitayus
Jnanatapa
Jnanatapa
Ushnishavijaya
Ushnishavijaya
Book Cover with the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata and Attendants
Book Cover with the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata and Attendants
Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown
Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown
Buddha with Attendants
Buddha with Attendants
Eleven-Headed, One-Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Eleven-Headed, One-Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Buddha with Five Tathagatas
Buddha with Five Tathagatas
Buddhist Hierarch
Buddhist Hierarch
Vajravarahi Mandala
Vajravarahi Mandala
Achala
Achala
Three Tathagatas
Three Tathagatas
Maitreya Buddha
Maitreya Buddha
Amoghasiddhi
Amoghasiddhi
Virupa
Virupa
Scenes from the Life of the Historical Buddha
Scenes from the Life of the Historical Buddha
Amitayus
Amitayus
Portrait of an Abbot
Portrait of an Abbot
Palden Lhamo
Palden Lhamo
Chakrasamvara Mandala
Chakrasamvara Mandala
Vairochana with Attendants
Vairochana with Attendants
Dancing Ganapati
Dancing Ganapati
Mandala of Mahavajrabhairava
Mandala of Mahavajrabhairava
Mandala of Vajradhatu
Mandala of Vajradhatu
Mandala of Jnanadakini
Mandala of Jnanadakini
Vaishravana
Vaishravana

all text & images © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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