Seated Deity Holding a Double Vajra

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani, second half of the 10th century

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana, ca. late 9th century

Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya, second half of the 8th century

The Transcendent Buddha Vairochana (?) Seated in Western Fashion, 9th century

Head of a Buddha, 9th century

Water Spout in the Form of a Makara, ca. 10th century

Seated Esoteric Buddhist Deity, ca. second half of the 11th–century

Seated Bodhisattva Vajrasattva, second half of the 8th–early 9th century

Paul Gauguin

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana), 1893

Art Institute of Chicago

Tibet

Milarepa on Mount Kailash, c. 1500

Non esposta · Art Institute of Chicago

Bust of Hevajra, late 12th–early 13th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guru Dragpo, Padmasambhava’s Fierce Emanation, 18th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mexica artist

Chalchiuhtlicue, 1325–1521 CE

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tara, the Buddhist Savior, 14th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eastern Nahua artist

Xantil (deity censer), 1200–1521 CE

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tree Spirit Deity (Yakshi), 1st–2nd century

Metropolitan Museum of Art