Buddha Hand
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Buddha Hand
In statues and images of Buddha what do the different hand positions mean?
I took asian art history back in school but it recently came up in a conversation and I couldnt remember for the life of me. It was actually a little hard to keep up with. Can you help?
I really hope reportbot is joking because while I am entirely capable of checking on my old notes and books I wanted to ask actual people to give me reliable sources of more in depth information. We all know the internet has a hit and miss chance of finding that if you have no clue what to look for.
Go to this website and scroll down. It has pictures of Buddha's hand gestures and it's meanings. The six major hand gestures of the Buddha is also explained.
http://www.thaiwebsites.com/buddha.asp
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