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Other three fingers are extended. Chin Mudra Psychic gesture of consciousness Tip of index finger touches thumb, palm facing upward. Other three fingers are extended. Adi Mudra The first gesture (as held by a new born baby) Thumb tucked in, placed at the base of the fingers. Remaining fingers curled over thumb, forming a fist. Chinmaya Mudra
A list of 12 midwives, each of whom holds a job in birth and foster care, including: In some places there is an extra god called Kim Hoa Thánh Mẫu (Bà Chúa Thai Sinh) - the head of the 12 Bà Mụ should not be included in the list of 12 Bà Mụ. Thập Nhị Tiên Nương (12 Bà Mụ) including:
In Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of India performed by Lord Nataraja, approximately 48 root mudras (hand or finger gestures) are used to clearly communicate specific ideas, events, actions, or creatures in which 28 require only one hand, and are classified as `Asamyuta Hasta', along with 23 other primary mudras which require both hands and are classified as 'Samyuta Hasta'; these 51 are ...
The Jñāna mudrā ("mudra of wisdom") is done by touching the tips of the thumb and the index together, forming a circle, and the hand is held with the palm inward towards the heart. [14] The mudra represents spiritual enlightenment in the indian-origin religions. Sometimes sadhus chose to be buried alive in this samadhi position.
[12] [13] A hatha yoga text, the Khecarīvidyā, states that khechari mudrā enables one to raise Kundalini and access various stores of amrita in the head, which subsequently flood the body. [14] The god Shiva, in the same text, gives instructions on how to cut the lingual frenulum as a necessary prerequisite for the khechari mudra practice: [15]
Yoni mudra used in Yoga practice. [20] Yoni mudra is a modern gesture in meditation used to reduce distraction during the beginning of yoga practice. [61] In the Thai language the medial canthus (the sharp corner of the eye closest to the nose) is called "Yoni Tha" where "Tha" means the eye.
A scroll painting of Saraha, surrounded by other Mahāsiddhas, probably 18th century and now in the British Museum. The usage and meaning of the term mahāmudrā evolved over the course of hundreds of years of Indian and Tibetan history, and as a result, the term may refer variously to "a ritual hand-gesture, one of a sequence of 'seals' in Tantric practice, the nature of reality as emptiness ...
The Varadamudra (Sanskrit: वरदमुद्रा, romanized: varadamudrā) or Abheeshta Mudra is a mudra, a symbolic gesture featured in the iconography of Indian religions. It indicates a gesture by the hand and symbolises dispensing of boons. [1]