![]() A 10th-century bronze altar representing the Jina Rishabhanatha enshrined offers eloquent testimony to the third great Indian religious tradition, Jainism. The richness of the Hindu religious imagination can be seen in an 11th-century sculpture of Vishnu resting on the cosmic ocean, dreaming the world between the cycles of time as his consort Lakshmi presses his feet, and in the image of the goddess Durga destroying illusion in the form of Mahisha the buffalo-demon. A 14th-century gilded bronze statue from Tibet represents Buddha Shakyamuni, the “Great One of the Sakya clan,” seated on a throne of lotus petals at the moment of his awakening. Indian Buddhism is represented by a majestic late 2nd-century sandstone Buddha from Mathura, one of the most important such works in an American museum, and a remarkable black stone Pala Buddha from the 10th century. They represent living religious traditions that originated in India thousands of years ago and spread throughout Asia and around the globe-Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The museum's Asian collections focus primarily on the religious arts of South Asia.
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