num_pages: 296
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.
language: English
title: Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
publisher: Princeton University Press