The gesture of teaching and debate, chiefly Buddhist: a raised hand with thumb and forefinger touching to form a circle, the unbroken wheel of doctrine. A near cousin of jnana and dharmachakra mudra.

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  Vitarka mudra , a single hand raised with thumb and forefinger touching, is the gesture of teaching and debate.

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