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Naga Princess Irandatī,
from one of the Buddhist [Tales of Ten Rebirths].
Tools used: India ink, watercolor, ecoline, on mixed cotton paper.

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2021-01-30

Tennin are divine beings in Buddhist lore similar to angels or fairies, portrayed as women in colorful kimonos called hagoromo. In some legends, they can't fly back to heaven without their hagoromo, so men will steal them to force tennin into marriage.

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2021-01-28

Local Shupug temporarily becomes Buddhist in hopes that USPS is still functional

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2021-01-16

Process GIF (?) of 百鬼繚乱。

my concept on the class switch was─ what if shikibu and enma/yama (buddhist king of hell) merged like what happened to sitonai hehe🥴

pssst we still have some merch + digital copies of the zine left over on ! 👀👀

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2021-01-08

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s "Hall of Thirty-Three Bays" (1995) captures a Kyoto Zen Buddhist temple which is home to a thousand-and-one "Senju Kanon" - a “Thousand-Armed Merciful Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara” figures.

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2021-01-05

buddhist mom Hijiri Byakuren.

Me gusta mucho la pelea con byakuren en Touhou UFO. por mas infernal que sea.

P.S: Si encuentro un error me funo.

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2021-01-01

Hey guys it’s been a while lol. Wanted to share a project I have been working on for a few months ☺️I was commissioned by Loi Huynh, and Jordan Waterworth for an animation project. Their story, The Spirit and the Kid, follows a little boy his day at a Buddhist temple✨

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2020-12-29

Can you see the comfy cat?🐱 This nostalgic woodcut by Paul Emile Colin was made after 1902.

Woodcuts date back to the 8th century when Buddhist monks in Japan & China used them to reproduce devotional texts- the medium reached Europe in the 15th century. https://t.co/lNvwdnlPoy

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2020-12-28

Waifu 18 of 25 - Byakuren Hijiri, floofy Buddhist nun and friend to all youkai from Touhou.

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2020-12-19

THREAD: Miroku/Setsuna
"The Story of Zen: Lesson 20-Origins of Rinzai"
We are going to delve into the Buddhist "lesson" Miroku told Setsuna.
Fasten your seatbelts and let's go on an intellectual journey.

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2020-12-16

Fujin, the Japanese god of the wind, came to Japan from Greece, via the Silk Road. 17th Century Japanese painting and a Greco-Buddhist Boreas (Greek wind god) from 2nd Century Ghandara, present day Afghanistan.

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2020-12-12

There's a manga named "Tsuki to Kin no Shangri-La" About Buddhists and Tibet that a friendo of mine really wanted me to check out-

The art is absolutely beautiful but the ending kind of punched me in the face with surprise, needless to say, the same went for friendo

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2020-12-08

Hello there, time for Buddhist yokai stone golem kinda thing

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2020-12-04

The location is so nice... it’s surrounded by Buddhist temples and really close to Tokyo tower and the train and konbini and supermarkets are all only like a 2 minute walk and its only 5 years old so it’s the newest place I’ve lived ahhhhhhhhhhhh😭😭😭

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2020-12-01

Martinia Annua is a Central American plant with interesting-looking seeds. It is now used in Thailand for making charms (gilded & immersed in oil), as these seeds resemble Hindu / Buddhist / Jain mythological creature Garuda.

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2020-11-30

UNRULY HEROES is inspired by one of China's most popular novels: Journey to the West 🐵🧙‍♀️🐷👹

It stars the monkey king, a pig and a pilgrim, who must protect a buddhist monk, whose flesh is believed to give immortality to whoever eats it!

A tale that also inspired Dragon Ball!

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2020-11-25

Benzaiten is a Japanese Buddhist goddess who originated from the Hindu goddess Saraswati. Worship of Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese translations of the Sutra of Golden Light, which has a section devoted to her.

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2020-11-16

Music as the food of love. In stories the or Saung (စောင်းကောက်) is often an instrument of temptation. More at https://t.co/qZzl63jHHh

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2020-11-15

The destructive feminine appears in many forms - as Artemis, Diana, Lilith, even Eve. Buddhist & Hindu Tantra
especially loves destructive goddesses & dakinis like Kali, Bhairavi, Vajrayogini, and others.

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2020-10-30