Figure 1. Detail of lion scratching its neck, mural in the Dratang Monastery, Central Tibet, ca. eleventh century. Photograph: Rob Linrothe, 2007. More

Figure 6. Detail of herders and in Ngüldung Lhakhang, Sakya Monastery, Tsang, Tibet, early twentieth (?) century. Photograph: Rob Linrothe, 2007. More

Figure 23. Bronze nāga from cache of objects deposited below the Jetavana monastery water tank, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, sixth century ce . Photograph: Robert DeCaroli, 2016. More

61. Sonam Peljor of Tsedong (Sakya Monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, active 18th c.), Illuminated Manuscript of the White Beryl , eighteenth century. Pigments on cloth and lacquered wood covers, object 5.7 × 60.6 × 10.8 cm, with original box 9.2 × 64.5 × 14.3 cm, page size 10.5 × 59.7 More

Figure 1. Takden Phuntsokling Monastery. Photograph: author. (Unless otherwise noted, all photographs were taken by the author in 2007.) The entrance to the monastery is on the right, and Akaniṣṭha Shrine is on the top floor on the left. More

Figure 28. Section of murals near doorway in main courtyard of Nechung Monastery, near Lhasa, central Tibet, ca. second half of seventeenth century. Photograph: author. More