The earth-touching gesture, chiefly Buddhist: the right hand reaching down over the knee to touch the ground, the Buddha at his awakening calling the earth to witness; a mudra as widely recognised as the abhaya.

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  Bhumisparsha mudra , the earth-touching gesture, where the right hand reaches down over the knee to touch the ground, is the Buddha at the moment of his awakening, calling the earth itself to witness.

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