The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c25.29
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c25.29
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c25.29
Dharmacakra, or Vyākhyāna mudrā, is that gesture of hands exhibited by Lord Buddha while preaching his first sermon at Sarnath. This pose is depicted variously but the most artistic and correct representation of this mudrā is to be found in the celebrated Prajñāpāramitā image from Java. See Getty : GNB, p. 187.