Sunday 17 December 2017

Twenty-Eight Buddha Mudras at the Botataung Pagoda of Yangon

1. varadamudrā "wish giver"

2. vyākhyānamudrā "explanation"

3. prāṭihāriyamudrā "miracle"

4. tiṇakiraṇamudrā "grass rays"

5. cīvaramudrā "monk robes"

6. sandassamudrā "complete vision"

7. tilokavijayamudrā "conquest of the three worlds"

8. pattamudrā "alms bowl"

9. dānamudrā "generosity"

10. vitakkamudrā "reasoning"

11. sīhakaṇṇamudrā "lion's ear"

12. uttarabodhimudrā "higher awakening"

13. mahākaruṇāmudrā "great compassion"
14. padūmahattha "lotus hand"


15. abhayamudrā "fearlessness"
 
16. dhammacakkamudrā "Dhamma wheel"

17. tajjanimudrā "censuring (?)"

18. hajana(sic)mudrā. I do not understand hajana and there is no Roman/Sanskrit equivalent. The Burmese explanation says that "in this way the given mindfulness does not perish".

19. sandassanamudrā. According to the Burmese explanation, it inspires the cultivation of the perfection of wisdom (paññāpāramī).

20. samāhitamudrā. According to the explanation gives peace to the mind so that it can concentrate.

21. vimhayamudrā "wonder"

22. bhūmiphassamudrā "touching the earth"

23. buddhasāmaṇamudrā "Buddha ascetic"

24. karaṇamudrā "instrument"

25. varamudrā "boon"

26. kaṭakahatthamudrā "ring-hand"

27. tripattakahatthamudrā "three-leaf hand"

28. santidamudrā "peace giver"

The 27 statues under a Bo tree

Mural of the early enlightenment days of the Buddha in the background


Another angle

View from the tree. Courtyard near the small Bo Bo Aung temple at the Botataung Pagoda

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