Buddhist Art
See also: Religious, Spiritual
Museums and Exhibitions
The Art of Asia
Buddhist culture, history and works from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts' permanent collection.
Smithsonian: A Closer Look: The Art of Buddhism
A brief introduction to Buddhism in China, India, Tibet, and Japan with examples of the Buddhist art of the Freer and Sackler galleries.
Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries
An online exhibition from the Freer Sackler Galleries featuring sixth-century Buddhist figures discovered by chance in Qingzhou.
Seattle Art Museum
An online flash presentation that allows visitors to browse the works of Buddhist art in the SAM collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Thematic Essays with images, suggested reading, maps, timelines, and related materials.
Tibetan Buddhist Art
Buddhism and Buddhist Art
Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th–9th century)
Life of the Buddha
Zen Buddhism
Bridging Worlds: Buddhist Words and Works
Explore paintings, texts, architecture, biographies and more, an online exhibition from Cornell’s Kroch Asia Library.
Visions of Enlightenment
An online exhibit from the Asia Pacific Museum, includes signs, symbols, ritual objects, deities, timelines, maps, teaching and other resources.
V&A: Buddhism
An overview of the life of Buddha, cave temple sculpture, the wheel of rebirth, iconography and more.
Secrets of the Seated Buddha
Drawings, paintings and other paper objects found within a seated Buddha statue.
The Circle of Bliss
An online exhibition of Buddhist meditational art presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
Flying Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism
The Mystical Arts of Tibet
The Many Faces of Buddha
View a selection of objects representing the peaceful image of Buddha, includes works of art from Japan, China, Korea, and Tibet, a presentation by Oglethorpe University Museum.
The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas
A selection of images from the cave-temples at Dunhuang, online at the British Museum.
Mirrors of the Heart-Mind
The Rezk Collection of Tibetan Art from the permanent collection of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art.
Image Collections
The Huntington Archive
A photographic research and teaching archive of Buddhist and related art.
Himalayan Art Resources
More than 20,000 works from private and museum collections presented by the Shelley and Donald Rubin foundation.
University of Vienna: Tibetan and Buddhist Studies: Picture Galleries
Includes photographs of sites, monuments, and objects of art.
University of Washington: Images
Divine beings in the Buddhist pantheon, also includes a timeline, maps, and an introduction to temples and practice from A Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization.
Museum Collections of Silk Road Art sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
Museum of Indian Art, Berlin: Himalayan/Tibetan Buddhist Art
National Museum, New Delhi: Early Buddhist Art
National Museum, New Delhi: Buddhist Art
Choijin Lama Museum: Mongolian Buddhist Sculpture and Painting
Fine Arts Museum, Ulaanbaatar: Buddhist Ritual Painting
Fine Arts Museum, Ulaanbaatar: Other Buddhist Art
Art of the Silk Road
An introduction to Buddhism and Trade with an index to Buddhist art which includes implements and icons, monumental sculpture, and information and images from Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves, and the Northern Tarim Basin.
Tibetan Buddhist Wall Paintings of Mustang, Nepal
A photographic survey of the wall paintings in the monastery-temples of Mustang.
Resources
University of Vienna: Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
An introduction to the different aspects of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art, especially the works preserved in the early monasteries of the western Himalayas.
Wikipedia: Buddhist Art
An introduction to Buddhist art from different periods and regions.
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