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Indian ritual gesture
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mudra
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n. 1 (context dance arts English) Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. 2 (context Hinduism English) Formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation.
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A mudra (; Sanskrit , "seal", "mark", or "gesture"; THL chakgya ) is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism . While some mudras involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands and fingers. A mudrā is a spiritual gesture and an ...
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n. ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing
Usage examples of mudra.
In the elevator, he let his hands run through a prayer mudra that the Church had adapted from Buddhism.
So he stood up from the meditative mudra and began making a tour of inspection.
The other was in July, when von Mudra came down from Berlin to see me.
The Voice sat cross-legged on her mat, her fingers in the jnana mudra, the headnet covering her skull.
But she looked at him soberly, and her fingers formed a mudra he could not read.
Hathayoga without a Guru and had begun with Khechari Mudra, Tratak and Uddiyan accompanied by Kapal Bhati Pranayama and ended by being sick.
In Khechari Mudra the lower connecting link of the tongue is to be cut.
I dropped to the lotus position, formed the mudra of the compassionate Buddha with my fingers, and lickity-split was on the sitting-still road to oneness with allthatness.
A real lohan is a saintly monk who has given up the ghost while seated in the meditative mudra.