jnana mudra
ज्ञानमुद्रा jñāna-mudrāThe seal of knowledge, also called chin mudra: thumb-tip and forefinger-tip joined in a circle, the other three fingers open, read as the union of the individual self (jiva) with the absolute (Brahman). The gesture of Dakshinamurti; also named vyakhyana ('exposition').
Where this term appears
- What are Mudras? Lineages
And jnana mudra , also called chin mudra , is the seal of knowledge: the tip of the thumb and the tip of the forefinger joined in a circle, the other three fingers open.
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
This is the chin-mudra , sometimes called the jnana-mudra , the seal of knowledge, and the tradition reads it as a compressed statement of its entire philosophy.