Buddhism

Date: 1890-1906

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: Objects-0636

Description: Maker(s) not identified. Statue of a standing woman, a crown on her head, wearing a long flowing patterned garment.The figure represents a goddess and has a bindi on her forehead. Likely a Japanese-manufactured figurine of the Chinese seafarer's goddess Ma Zu Po or Mazu. The figure may be a Buddhist or Daoist one. It may be the Chinese seafarer's goddess Ma Zu Po, or Mazu, the Daoist Queen of Heaven and Holy Mother. Seafarers prayed or sacrificed to this goddess for fine weather and safe conduct. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Porcelain, 300 x 50 x 50 mm (circular) Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, 2024. Previous reference: Curios-029-049. Previous title: Maker unknown :[Japanese or Chinese figure. ca 1900].

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

Reference: E-022-q-046

Description: On the left, a buddhist priest holding a sun umbrella is being offered food by a woman outside her house in Kandy, Ceylon. The frame of the picture is decorated with flowers of a climber. On the left: The caves near Moulmein, Rangoon. View from inside the cave looking out to the plain below, showing a buddha and stupa at the entrance. The frame is decorated with a sprig of [frangipani?] on the upper lefthandside The left-hand view was published without the square frame and flower decoration as a wood engraving in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, page 99, without a title. The right-hand view was published as a chromolithograph chapter-heading entitled Rangoon on page 119. Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath images (in red ink) titles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Two ink and wash, on sheet 210 x 308 mm

Date: [ca 1800s]

Reference: MSR-47

Description: Sacred Buddhist ordination text from Mandalay, Burma, written in Pali (Burmese square script), circa 1800s. Text identification and translation provided by San San May, curator for Burmese, British Library, August 2018. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Sixteen folios, 570 x 124 mm. Provenance: Text on underside of upper board states that the manuscript was donated by layman U Ku and his wife, who lived in Aung Nan Yeiktha, Letsekan. The monastery in receipt of the manuscript is not identified.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: A-135-044/048

Description: Subjects include Tadeusz Gansiorowski, Pierre Conlan, and Teresa Rzewuska Quantity: 5 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 240 x 190 mm to 420 x 295 mm

Date: 1940

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of North African scenes during World War II

Reference: PA1-o-1565

Description: Photographs of military troopships and naval vessels (including Ramilees, Strathaird), soldiers recreation and entertainment, Mersa Matruh in Easter 1940, soldiers playing tenniquoits, military vehicles in the desert, Egyptian antiquities, races at Heliopolis in 1940, Tood? Sporting Club in Helipolis. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 230 x 310 mm

Date: [ca 1970-1973]

By: Dunningham, Margaret Mathie, 1911-1974

Reference: MSX-4910-4911

Description: In `Gupta places' Dunningham explores Gupta culture and antiquities and writes of her visits to Bihar and Madhya Bharat and in `Sojourn at Sanchi' she describes her experiences while living for three years in Sanchi, also in Madhya Bharat Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with photographs and maps Includes photographs and maps

Date: [1939-1945]

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of 2NZEF in Egypt, Middle East and Italy

Reference: PA1-o-1671

Description: Contains views of Cairo; Pyramids; Sphinx; Nairn Transport Co bus; 2NZEF transport vehicles, camps, and personnel on leave. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 25 x 32.5 cm

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-Buddhist

Description: See child records for details Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1950

From: Emery, James Inman, 1879-1953: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11819-13

Description: A study of man and his religions with particular emphasis on Buddhism. The text is divided into two parts; `Man and his religions' and `Buddhism' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms

Date: 1970-1999

Reference: Eph-B-MEDITATION-1900s

Description: Includes (among other more general fliers, including some from the Wellington Buddhist Centre): Undated: Zen master Joshu Sasaki returns to N.Z. in November [1980s?]. Flier with portrait 1975: International Meditation Society. [1975]. Yellow flier "TM - new solutuion to perennial problems". New Zealand Commerce, July 1975, vol. 31, no. 12 Wellington Teaching Centre. Students International Meditation Society [1975]. Yellow flier 1978: Borough of Kapiti. [Letter of encouragement for "Ideal Kapiti Campaign". 29 August 1978] 1979: Mantra meditation classes. Crossways, 22 November [1979]. Flier 1982: Lecture: Reversal of ageing medically verified. Conference Room, Town Hall. 27 October [1982]. Flier Mantra meditation; an introduction by George Ormond. Turnbull House Bowen Street, 7 December [1982]. Flier Maharishi College of Natural Law. Conferences 9-31 October 1982. Wellington Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, 21 Manchester Street, Melrose, Wellington. Flier 1983: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. For further information contact Prabhat Rajneesh Meditation Centre, 137 Dixon Street, Wellington [1983]. Flier (2 copies) Mantra meditation; an introduction by George Ormond. Turnbull House Bowen Street, 8 April [1983]. Flier Swami Chidvilasananda in Auckland 20 April - 2 May [1983?]. Flier with portrait The way of love; a free public lecture by Swami Shantananda. Turnbull House, Bowen Street, 28 July [1983]. Flier with portrait 1984: T'ai Chi, ancient art of dance and meditation, with leading teacher Peter Chen. Anglican Chinese Hall, 3 December [1984]. Green flier Coming to Wellington. Robert B Stone, Ph.D. Free public lecture. Town House, 73 Roxburgh Street, 10 September 1984. Red flier Trust and opening the heart with Sw Shatam Sugata. Prabhat Rajneesh Meditation Centre, 123 Willis Street, 10-11 March [1984]. Flier with portrait ca 1985: Creative meditation workshops and retreats [with Rahouna; and with Marcia Dale Weiss and Marshall Auspitz]. Flier with portraits Sant Thakar Singh. Spiritual meditation. The natural way. Palmerston North 13-14 January; Wellington 15-17 January [ca 1985]. Flier with portrait 1986: Vimala Thakar meditation retreat. Tauhara Centre Taupo, 4-12 March 1986. Flier with portrait 1988: A weekend with Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Karanga Camp, Swanson, 8-10 April [1988]. Flier with portrait 1989: Wellington Buddhist Centre. Learn to meditate; a 6-week course beginning 20 July [1989]. Flier 1990: Wellington Buddhist Centre. Learn to meditate. 18 Lloyd Street (off Pirie St) [1990]. Flier 1991: The expression of creative delight; a special evening of Siddha meditation. Kingsgate centre Ballroom, 7 May [1991]. Flier 1996: Ken Mellor. Freedom from limitation 15-16 March; Oceanic meditations 22-23 March [1996]. Flier 1997: Insight meditation retreat with Jeremy Logan and Hugh Tennent. Tauhara Centre Taupo, 23-27 April [1997]. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes up to 240 mm.

Date: 1990-1999

Reference: Eph-D-RELIGION-1990s

Description: Includes: 1991: A festival for all possibilities, "Infinity". Experience the possibilities of unversal creativity, healing and wisdom. Plaza International Hotel, Wakefield Street Wellington, 16-17 November 1991. 1996: A celebration of kindness; a benefit concert and fun night out in aid of the visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Downstage Theatre Wellington, 11 August [1996] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 600 mm.

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Religion-Buddhism

Description: Photographs relating to Buddhism compiled for internal use by the Library of the Evening Post newspaper, ca 1950-2000.

Date: 1937-1938

Reference: MS-Papers-3380

Description: Discusses views on Nazism and Buddhism Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr G E Bell, 1961

Date: 2003

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-Buddhist-2003-01

Description: Shows a photographic portrait of the New Zealand-born Rinpoche, the first High Lama to be born in the Southern Hemisphere, and gives his tour itinerary in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia. This copy is autographed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of folded pamphlet, 210 x 297 mm. Provenance: Autographed by the Rinpoche during his visit to the National Library venue on 10 December 2003.

Date: 1945

From: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr 1922- :[Portraits and scene in Paris] 1945-1954

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: A-135-046

Description: Standing portrait of a young Buddhist figure in a black-edged pale yellow robe and white skirt. His left thumb and first finger form a circle, and his right hand is palm out towards the viewer. At his feet are plants (flowers and miniature trees) and behind him lies a river and Indian-style buildings with a red plain beyond. The figure may be a self-portrait. The artist, who visited the Library in 1993 has provided further information about this work. It was painted in 1945 while he was a student boarding with Blanche Harding in Christchurch. He had recently read a book on Buddhism, which had a strong influence on him at the time and encouraged in him ideals of asceticism Inscriptions: Verso - title and date in ball-point pen. Probably titled by the artist at the time of donation to the Library Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 348 x 252 mm Provenance: Donation: Douglas MacDiarmid, Paris, 1980

Date: 1920

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-056

Description: A sculpture of the Buddha Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-123

Description: Photographs relating to religion, arranged alphabetically from A to CH, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to the Anglican Chinese Mission Church, and to church and charity fairs. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Reference: A-080-024

Description: On the left, a seated Buddha figure, legs crossed 'usual position'. In the centre and on the right, three variant 'Tiki of greenstone of N Zd', with heads in three different positions. The hei tiki on the left is noted as 'Very old broken'. The four figures have similar postures Notes about drawings in Robley's handwriting Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 200 x 300 mm