“Pokémon” is short for Pocket Monsters — so these are Pocket Buddhas. Collectible teaching cards in that aesthetic. Series I · The Awakened Ones.
Dharma teaching cards. The sun is Buddha-nature — always whole, never diminished; the veils are clouds that only hide it. One jewel runs the whole deck: hidden, then gleaming, then revealed.
▸ The whole path, Buddha-Nature → Buddha▸ The two veils, side by side▸ Iconography guide
Saṃsāra — the round of becoming. Turned by the three poisons, held in the jaws of Death; its six realms are the worlds we are reborn into, and beyond it a Buddha points the way out.
Placeholder art — final images by the artist · Twelve links coming next
