Seated Avalokistesvara Buddha Statue. Resin, 5.5" high. Imported from Nepal. "One often finds Avalokitesvara [the bodhisattva of compassion] portrayed as having a thousand arms [and a thousand eyes], and these symbolize his innumerable activities.

Brass with green coloring, 4.5" high. When a violent storm erupted at the time of the Buddha's enlightenment, a seven-headed naga (snake-like being) named Muclinda used his body to protect the Enlightened One. Imported from India. Also available with red coloring.

Brass with red coloring, 4.5" high. When a violent storm erupted at the time of the Buddha's enlightenment, a seven-headed naga (snake-like being) named Muclinda used his body to protect the Enlightened One. Imported from India. Also available with green coloring.

Imported from Thailand. This Hotei Buddha weighs in your hand like heavy plaster or stone, but is actually made of water buffalo bone meal mixed with a resin binder.

Imported from Thailand. This Hotei Buddha weighs in your hand like heavy plaster or stone, but is actually made of water buffalo bone meal mixed with a resin binder. The following is one of 101 Zen Stories, from the book Zen Flesh Zen Bones. Hotei lived in the T'ang dynasty. He had no desire to call himself a Zen master or to gather many disciples about him. Instead he walked the streets with a big sack into which he would put gifts of candy, fruit, or doughnuts. These he would give to children who gathered around him in play. He established a kindergarten of the streets. Whenever he met a Zen devotee he would extend his hand and say: "Give me one penny." And if anyone asked him to return to a temple to teach others, again he would reply: "Give me one penny." Once he was about his play-work another Zen master happened along and inquired: "What is the significance of Zen?" Hotei immediately plopped his sack down on the ground in silent answer. "Then," asked the other, "what is the actualization of Zen?" At once the Happy Chinaman swung the sack over his shoulder and continued on his way.

Made in Nepal for the Tawainese market, this rupa is stylistically unique. Copper and brass with painted features. 17 inches high, 13 inches across the base.

Manjushri Buddha Statue. Resin, 5.5" high. Imported from Nepal.

Partly gilt brass and copper, painted face, 3" high. We have Buddha rupas this size with different mudras or gestures: The Buddha in earth-witnessing mudra (shown), meditation mudra, turning the wheel of Dharma or teaching mudra, or the mudra of protection or fearlessness. Sealed at the base. Imported from Nepal.

Seated Medicine Buddha Statue with Nimbus in Teaching Mudra. Brass, 4.5" high. Imported from India.

Partly gilt brass and copper, painted face, 2.25" high. Jambhala Buddha. Sealed at the base. Imported from Nepal.

Partly gilt brass and copper, painted face, 3.5" high. Jambhala Buddha holding a mongoose and jewels. Sealed at the base. Imported from Nepal.

Seated Medicine Buddha Statue. Resin, 4" high. Imported from Nepal.

Milarepa, seated on a deer-skin, in his classic listening posture. "Milarepa was tremendously involved with the process of transmutation of energies and emotions. In fact, when we read the Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, the whole first part of the book is dealing with Milarepa's experience of this process . . . . In "The Tale of Red Rock Jewel Valley," when Milarepa went back into his cave after having a comforting vision of Marpa, he was confronted with a gang of demons. He tried every way he could think of to get rid of them, he even preached the Dharma to them. But they would not leave until he ceased regarding them as "bad" and opened to them, saw them as they were. This was the beginning of Milarepa's period of learning how to subjugate the demons, which is the same thing as transmuting the emotions. It is with our emotions that we create demons and gods: those things which we don't want in our lives and world are the demons; those things which we would draw to us are the gods and goddesses. The rest is just scenery." Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

Partly gilt brass and copper, painted face, 5.25" high. The Buddha holding a begging bowl. Sealed at the base. Imported from Nepal.

Sakyamuni Buddha, seated with begging bowl. Resin, 4.25" high. Imported from Nepal.

Sakyamuni Buddha, earth mudra. Resin, 4.25" high. Imported from Nepal.

Tara, protectress of Tibet. Resin with copperplate, painted face, 7" high. Imported from Nepal.

Tara, protectress of Tibet. Resin, 5" high. Imported from Nepal.