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Standing Arhats (AMNH) - Added

A sculpture set of Standing Elders/Sthavira have been added. It is not clear whether this set is of the sixteen Elders or of the much greater set of Five Hundred Elders (Lohan) - popular in the Chinese Buddhist system. Shakyamuni Buddha, Shariputra, Maudgalyayana and the Four Guardian Kings are missing from this set.

Seated Arhats (AMNH) - Added


A sculpture set of Seated Elders/Sthavira have been added. There are several figures missing from this set of twenty-five sculpture. The missing pieces are Shakyamuni Buddha, Shariputra, Maudgalyayana, and the Four Guardian Kings.

Sudhana (Gandavyuha Sutra) - Added

A page for the young boy Sudhana of the Gandavyuha Sutra has been added.

AMNH: Who Are We? - Added

A gallery of sculptural pieces have been created. These figures are currently unidentified. Who are they? Do they belong to Chinese folk religion? Taoism? Are they Buddhist? Are they gods of the days, weeks, months, years? Astrological?