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ASIAN ART: General
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Asian Collections, in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The East Asian Collections in The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, with a link to an Image Gallery
The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, with a link to the Collection
Asian Art: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
- Asuka and Nara Periods (538 - 794 A.D.)
- Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.)
- Heian Period (794 - 1185 A.D.)
- Jiahu (ca. 7000 - 5700 B.C.)
- Jomon Culture (ca. 10,500 - ca. 300 B.C.)
- Kamakura and Nanbokucho Periods (1185 - 1392 A.D.)
- Kofun Period (ca. 3rd century - 538 A.D.)
- Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th - 9th century A.D.)
- Kushan Empire (ca. 2nd century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.)
- Life of the Buddha
- Mal'ta (ca. 20,000 B.C.)
- Mauryan Dynasty (ca. 323 - 185 B.C.)
- Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644 A.D.)
- Momoyama Period (1573 - 1615 A.D.)
- Muromachi Period (1392 - 1573 A.D.)
- Music in the Han Dynasty
- Nepalese Painting
- Nepalese Sculpture
- Northern and Southern Dynasties, Period of the (386 - 589 A.D.)
- Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127 A.D.)
- Pachmari Hills (ca. 9000 - 3000 B.C.)
- Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C.)
- Samurai
- Shinto
- Shunga Dynasty (ca. 2nd - 1st century B.C.)
- Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279 A.D.)
- Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 A.D.)
- Tibetan Buddhist Art
- Yayoi Culture (ca. 4th century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.)
- Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368 A.D.)
- Zen Buddhism
Timelines: A Virtual Museum, including India, Japan, and China (with images)
Xiongnu (Hsiungnu, Huns of Asia)
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive (Ohio State University)
Buddhist art (through ArtLex)
Asian Art in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Asian Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Asian Art in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- China
- Japan
- Indian Subcontinent
Asian Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Asian Art in the collection of the The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
Asian Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Asian Art, with 287 pages of objects in the Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Asian Art in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
South and Southeast Asian Art (at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
Asian Art in The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection, Dallas, Texas
Far Eastern Art in the collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Ancient Central Asia (through Images from History), with links to:
- Western Oxus-Indus Heartland (3rd-2nd millenium B.C.)
- Iranean and Achæmenid Bactria (10th to 3th c. B.C.)
- The Sakas on the Kazakh steppe (2nd-1st millenium B.C.)
- Sarmatia
- The Kushan Empire
Oriental Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, with links to:
- India
- Mongolia and Tibet
- China
- Japan
- Thailand
- Central Asia
- The Caucasus
- The Golden Horde
- Oriental Jewellery
Chinese and Japanese Art in the Topper Gallery
The Coins and History of Asia (T. K. Mallon-McCorgray)

CAMBODIA
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Cambodia (through Southeast Asian Monuments: a selection of 100 slides), with links to:
Architecture in Cambodia (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Banteay Srei Temple
- Preah Ko Temple
  Angkor
  Phnom Penh
Investigations of the Angkor Architecture (Cambodian Architecture) (through the Waseda University Asia Expedition: Asian Architecture Research Team)
Angkor Wat
Cambodia's Angkor Wat (images only)
Sculptures and bas-reliefs in Khmer Art, in French (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Khmer Ceramics (through Asia-art.net)

INDONESIA
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Indonesian Batik (through Asia-art.net)
Borobudur (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Buddha statue on the upper terrace of Borobudur Stupa
Images of Indonesia (through AnthroArcheArt.org)
Images of Indonesia (in the Varanasi Slide Collection, American Institute of Indian Studies, University of Pennsylvania)

KOREA
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LAOS
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Architecture in Laos (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Luang Prabang
  - Wat Xieng Thong Temple
- Vientiane

MALAYSIA
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MYANMAR
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Burma / Myanmar (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Architecture in Myanmar (Burma) (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Bagan
- Mandalay

NEPAL
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Art of Newar Buddhism, Nepal (through The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art)
- Introduction to Buddhism (Text & illustrations by John C. Huntington)
- Sacred History of the Kathmandu Valley as articulated in Two Contemporary Thangka Paintings
- Traditional Lost Wax Casting Method
- Vasundhara puja and Panchadan Festival (conducted at Haka Baha)
- Ratha Jatra (The festival in which Rato Macchendrenath is taken from Patan to Bungamati)
- Sculpture from the Licchavi Period (ca. 330 - 880)
- Asokan Caityas / Stupas
  - East Caitya, in Patan
  - South Caitya, in Lagankhel
  - West Caitya, in Patan
  - North Caitya, in Patan
- 3 Great Stupas
- Bahas and Bahis
  - Gum Baha
  - Haka Baha in the city of Patan
  - Chusya Baha in the city of Kathmandu.
- Avalokitesvara / Macchendranath / Lokesvara Shrines
  - Bungamati Temple
  - Co Baha, Chobar: Anandadi Lokesvara Shrine
  - Laskadyaya Baha, Bhaktapur: Laskadyo (Avalokitesvara) Shrine
  - Lokesvara Baha, Nala: Lokesvara (Avalokitesvara) Shrine
  - Minnath Temple, Patan
  - Rato Macchendranath Temple, Patan
  - Ta Baha, Thimi: Lokesvara (Avalokitesvara) Shrine
- Sakti Sites
  - Balaju (with images of the Hariti Shrine and the Guhyesvari Shrine)
  - Mheipi Ajima Shrine
  - Puran Guhyesvari
  - Vajrayogini Temple, Pharping.
  - Gum Baha/Khadgayogini Temple at Sanku.
    - Early caves at the site
    - A temple dedicated to Khadgayogini (also known as Vajrayogini)
    - A temple dedicated to Swayambhu
  - Bijesvari Temple at Bilasa Bahi
Architecture in Nepal (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Kathmandu
  - Bodnath Stupa
  - Swayambunatha Stupa
- Patan
Images of Katmandu (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase through AnthroArcheArt.org)
- Swaiambu Stupa
- Shrine with Shrubbery
- Katmandu Pagoda with a detail of the exterior, and a detail of the "Mirror of Wisdom"

PAKISTAN
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Architecture in Pakistan (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Lahore
- Taxila
Salt Range Temples, Pakistan (Professor Michael W. Meister, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania)

SINGAPORE
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Architecture in Singapore (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Singapore

SRI LANKA
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Images of Sri Lanka (through AnthroArcheArt.org)

THAILAND
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Thai Art (through Asia-art.net), with links to
Architecture in Thailand (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Wat Poy (typical rural temple)
  Bangkok
  Chiangmai
  Nakhon Pathom
  - Phra Pathom Chedi
  Pranburi
  - Modern Chinese Temple
Images of Thailand (through AnthroArcheArt.org)
Thailand (through Southeast Asian Monuments: a selection of 100 slides), with links to:
- Wat Kukut at Lamphun
- Phanom Rung in Northeast Thailand
- Wat Jet Yod in Chiang Mai
Thailand in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

TIBET
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Mirrors of the Heart-Mind, The Rezk Collection of Tibetan Art from the Permanent Collection of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (online exhibition through The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art)
Mongolia and Tibet in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Tibetan Healing Mandala (temporary exhibition at the The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC)
Exploring the Mandala
mandala: Buddhist Tantric Diagrams (Patrick A. George)

VIETNAM
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Vietnam (through Southeast Asian Monuments: a selection of 100 slides), with a link to:

My Son

Vietnamese Art (through Asia-art.net), with links to

Architecture in Vietnam (through Asian Historical Architecture)

Tay Ninh

Cao Dai temple

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