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mudra  Term Image (mudrā ; मुद्रा) Script Image
(Language:  Sanskrit)
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Short Description: In Sanskrit, “seal, sign.” In Hinduism and Buddhism, a stylized and symbolic gesture, especially one involving the hands and the fingers.
Long Description: In Sanskrit, “seal, sign”; in Hinduism and Buddhism, a stylized and symbolic gesture, especially one involving the hands and the fingers, often seen in iconography and sacred dance and employed in meditation as a vehicle for inducing a particular state of consciousness.
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Source(s): Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life
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Provided By: Dictionary of Spiritual Terms