Mudra : : A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture / / Ernest Dale Saunders.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Saunders, Ernest Dale,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1960
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Bollingen Series (General) ; 619
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Mudra: A PICTORIAL INDEX --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF PLATES --; LIST OF TEXT FIGURES --; NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION --; I. INTRODUCTION --; II. The Principal Symbolic Gestures --; III. Six Secondary Mudra and the Äsana --; IV. The Attributes --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691187761; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691187761?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ernest Dale Saunders.

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.