Shakyamuni Buddha with a gesture of touching the earth.

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Buddha sits in padmasana, touching the earth with his right hand, and holding the alms bowl with his left. The gesture of touching the earth (bhumisparsa-mudra) means that only the earth can witness the unimaginable difficulty of all the trials on the path to awakening.

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Size: 5795px × 8688px
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Photo credit: © Sergii Petruk / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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