Burmese Mandalay Parcel Gilt Earth Touching Buddha. Seated Buddha statue featuring a weathered reddish-brown finish with intricate gold-colored filigree and green gemstone embellishments on its robes and base.

Size: 24 x 20 x 12 in.

The **earth-touching Buddha mudra**, known in Sanskrit as *bhūmisparśa mudrā*, depicts the Buddha seated with his right hand reaching down to touch the earth while the left rests in his lap in meditation. This gesture symbolizes the moment of the Buddha’s enlightenment, when he called the earth to witness his triumph over Māra, the embodiment of delusion and temptation. The earth’s response affirms the Buddha’s accumulated merit and right to awakening, making the mudra a powerful emblem of steadfastness, truth, and spiritual resolve. Common in Southeast Asian Buddhist art, it represents unshakable grounding, the victory of insight over illusion, and the moment awakening becomes irrevocably real.

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