Mudra

A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture

• Author(s): Ernest Dale Saunders,
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Pages: 296
• ISBN_10: 0691187762
  ISBN_13: 9780691187761
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General ,

Description:...

Appearing for the first time in paperback and illustrated with line drawings, diagrams, and 26 half-tone plates, this study of the iconographic aspect of Japanese Buddhist sculpture surveys the significance of eight principal and six secondary hand gestures (mudra), in addition to the postures (asana), such as the "lotus," and the symbolic attributes. A pictorial index helps the reader in identifying the gestures.