Handprints (Sanskrit mudra, Tibetan phyag-rgya), also known as seals, now often refer to various gestures made by the hands and fingers of practitioners in the practice of Tantric Buddhism. It is transliterated as Mother Datura, Mother Mu Na Luo and Mother Rona, or called, and Mudra, or simply "Yin".
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Basic handprints of tantric school
There are many tantric handprints, usually based on twelve palms and four kinds of fists. Their twelve palms and four kinds of fists are as follows.
Twelve palms together.
1, the first real crossing, Sanskrit Ningwei _(nivida): The palms are crossed, the palms are firmly connected, and the fingers are slightly separated.
2. Open your hands with an open mind. Sanskrit samputa: Ten fingers are equal, the heads are close together, and the palms are slightly open.
3, the third is not applied to the lotus palm, Sanskrit kudmala: as before, in the empty palm, making it slightly arched.
4. Bhagna, the Sanskrit servant at the beginning of the fourth cut: two places are juxtaposed, and the other six fingers are scattered, that is, eight leaves are printed.
5, the fifth reveals that the palms are close together, Sanskrit _ uttanaja: the palms are close together.
6, the sixth hand holds water, Sanskrit adhara: and the palm is up, the fingers are in phase, slightly curved, such as drowning, like eating.
7, the seventh palm, Sanskrit pranama: hands crossed, fingers crossed, left and right, such as King Kong hands crossed.
8. The eightieth palm, Sanskrit Li Duo: right hand plus left hand, backhand, ten fingers twisting, also right hand plus left hand.
9. The ninth anti-back is folded in half. Sanskrit Viparyasta: The right hand is placed on the left hand, and the left hand is covered under the right hand, slightly like a seal.
10, the tenth cross rests on the finger, and the Sanskrit crow (tiryak): Raise two palms to make the two middle fingers meet.
1 1, the eleventh hand is folded down, Sanskrit adhara: the hands are closed and the two middle fingers are also connected.
12, the tenth second hand folding Sanskrit is the same as the eleventh hand: two hands are folded, two fingers are connected, and ten points outward.
Four kinds of boxing
1, all
Hua Lian Boxing is also called Fetal Boxing. Often used as a seal for fetal storage. The impression is that the four fingers under the head lean back and the thumb is pressed against the side of the middle finger. For example, Volume XIII of the Great Sun Sutra says, "Make a fist as usual, with your big finger upright." In the representative sense of this lotus in Hua Quan, it refers to the unfinished lotus.
2. King Kong Boxing
(1) Jingangquan is mainly used in Jingangding. The karma seal mentioned by King Kong Ding Jing is based on this kind of diamond fist. "The Sutra of the Great Sun Shu" says that its impression is: "fist with empty fingers", "when the golden wheel is on the track" says: "hold the big finger with the middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger, and hold the back of the big finger with the head finger."
(2) Although the knot method of Jingang Boxing varies from genre to genre, most of them are based on what is said in "The Golden Wheel of Track and Field".
(3) King Kong Ding Jing said that this King Kong Boxing is "everything is like a body, language is like a heart, and ideas are like a heart". It is an endless interpretation of the Prajna Sutra: "Body, mouth and heart are one punch." Both believe that this diamond fist is the general support of all secret activities of body, language and meaning.
3. External boxing
(1) In Volume XIII of Da Sun Jing, this is called "external boxing", but generally it is only called external binding. It gives the impression that the fork is used to make a fist and the fingers are exposed. King Kong Ding Jing called it a King Kong tie, and called it a "second-hand moon", which is a round watch wheel tied in the palm outside.
(2) The Samadha sounds of King Kong Ding Jing are based on external boxing. According to the "Diamond Sutra", in order to get rid of the tangled moon wheel, it is necessary to put another seal on bodhicitta.
4. Internal boxing
(1) Da Sun's classic is called the second fist. It gives the impression that fingers are crossed and all fingers are bent to the palm of your hand.
(2) Lotus Boxing, Diamond Boxing, External Bound Boxing, Internal Bound Boxing, etc., combined with rage boxing and Tathagata boxing into six fists. The so-called anger fist is to hold the thumb with the ring finger and middle finger, and the head finger and little finger bend slightly like teeth. The so-called Tathagata Boxing means Lotus Boxing in the left hand, Diamond Boxing in the right hand, and Diamond Boxing in the right hand holding the thumb of the left hand.
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