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Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 21 shown for “Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables” — 49 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables
Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 14th century

The Bodhisattva Monju
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Monju bosatsu (Manjushri)
Artist not stated in the record · 1333-1573

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute
Kano Tan'yū · mid-17th century

The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th-early 15th century

The Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) with Eight Topknots
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Mandala of the Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) of the Eight Syllables
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
The Bosatsu Jizo and Ten Kings of Hell
Artist not stated in the record · 1185-1333

Portable Shrine of Miroku Bosatsu with Sacred Sanskrit Syllable
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Buddhist deity: Gokei Monju (Manjushri)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)
Kaikei · ca. 1202

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Mandala of the Bodhisattva Hannya (Prajnaparamita)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Bangali Ragini
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Daishōjin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas”
Takuma Tametō · 12th century

Portrait of Manjushri (Monju)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Black cassock with band collar
Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947 · mid to late-20th century
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle
William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle
William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 251701 matched · 40 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:28 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.