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Music and Buddhism

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National Museum of Asian Art 22 Filter by term Exclude term
National Museum of the American Indian 1 Filter by term Exclude term
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 1 Filter by term Exclude term
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Google Arts & Culture 17 Filter by term Exclude term
East Building (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), Gallery 26a: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room 7 Filter by term Exclude term
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Art 22 Filter by term Exclude term
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Charles Lang Freer collection 11 Filter by term Exclude term
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Alice S. Kandell Collection 7 Filter by term Exclude term
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Benten on a rock by the sea

Large temple drum with original stand and drumsticks

Door panel depicting Buddhist apsara playing music

Altar bell

Korean ambassadors introduce Buddhism to Japan

Pair of conch-shell horns (dung-kar)

A Buddhist procession of three musicians and one dancer

Welcoming Descent of the Buddha of Infinite Light and Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas

Bell

Benten

Pair of Small Cymbals with Carrying Case

Buddhist Ekoji - Nen Daiko - Japanese Taiko Drumming

Buddha 2.0: Echoes of the Past

Pair of telescoping ritual horns (dung-chen)

Buddhist circlet for the head of a divinity

Pair of reeds (gya-ling)

Pair of Large Cymbals with Carrying Case

Door panel depicting Buddhist apsara playing a zither

Altar bell with carved wooden handle

Door panel depicting Buddhist apsara playing a flute

Altar bell

Door panel depicting Buddhist apsara playing the biwa (lute)

Thighbone trumpet, from an assembled set of items used in Severance (Chöd) Practice

FandangObon at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Benten (Sarasvati) seated on a rock

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