Plate 1                                                                                          Plate 2

Plate 1: Buddha of the Past, Buddha of the Present, Buddha of the Future, Potala Palace, Tibet

Plate 2: The Shiva Trinity, Cave Temple at Elephanta.  Both Nick Gier photos.

Plate 3                                                                                    Plate 4

Plate 3: Krishna Transfiguration in the Gita (chap. 11). The warrior Arjuna is in the foreground

Plate 4: Infant Krishna with parents Devaki and Vasudeva.  Cosmic Krishna just in back. A Hindu slaughter of the Infants (a la King Herod) happens on the same day.  See www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/307/archetype.htm.

Images used by permission of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Plate 5: The Altar of the Pure Ones.  Daoist Temple in Brisbane Australia. Nick Gier photo.

From left to right: Lao Tzu, Celestial Mother, Jade Emperor, Ling Bao.