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In Buddhism, the Karana Mudrā is seen as an apotropaic gesture to expel demons, remove negative energy, and ward off evil. It is commonly found on depictions of Gautama Buddha. [1] [2] It is also found on the Song dynasty statue of Laozi, the founder of Taoism, on Mount Qingyuan, China. [3]
This mudra has a great number of variants in Mahayana Buddhism. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is the mystic gesture of Tārās and bodhisattvas with some differences by the deities in Yab-Yum. Vitarka mudrā is also known as Vyākhyāna mudrā ("mudra of explanation"). This is also called as chin-mudra. [13]
Dhyana Mudra Psychic gesture of meditation Upturned hands overlapping each other, usually right on top of left, with the thumbs touching. Vāyu Mudra Psychic gesture of element air Tip of index finger on the ball of the thumb, with thumb over the bent finger. Other three fingers are extended. Shunya Mudra (or Shuni Mudra)
Mudra Arts: Release date. 16 February 1989 () Country: India: Language: Malayalam: Mudra is a 1989 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Sibi Malayil, starring Mammootty ...
Some of the well-known interpretations of karanas are by Padma Subramanyam that were based on 108 brief movement phrases describing specific leg, hip, body, and arm movements accompanied by hasta mudras described in the Natya shastra and other scriptures, and from depictions of the movements in sculpture in five South Indian temples, notably ...
Sandhya Purecha (b. 29 December 1965) is a senior Bharatanatyam exponent, Author and renowned practitioner of Indian classical dance. [1] She is the first person to bring on stage the performance in Bharatnatyam style of the entire Abhinaya Darpan dance treatise as defined by Nandikeshwara in Abhinaya Darpan and as choreographed by her Guru Parvati Kumar.
The Khechari Vidya (Sanskrit: खेचरीविद्या, khecarīvidyā, knowledge of Khechari), an early tantric text on Hatha yoga written around the 14th ...
Karana, a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae; Kāraṇa, cause and effect in Advaita Vedanta; Karana, colloquial term for Indians in Madagascar; Karana, the main character in Scott O'Dell's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, who is based on the historical Juana Maria; Karana the Rainkeeper, the god of rain and storms in the EverQuest MMORPG