The Meanings of Buddha Statues' Hand Signs

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Each hand-sign of buddha statues has meaning!
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Thank you for the knowledge !

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Namo shakyamuni Buddha 🙏

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[@Safarnama.26]

Tathagat Gautam Buddha is great

[@nayanmistry4641]

Hi thanks for the very informative video 🙏🏼. I have a question, I have a standing Buddha statue that had his left hand raised and facing outward, like semuii-in but performed using the left hand, however yogan-in is not performed. What is the significance of the left hand being raised instead of the the right. In Hinduism blessings are always given with the right hand. I hope you can help. Thank you

[@TheJapanalyst]

Thanks for the comment.
First of all there're many hand signs to distinguish, and that's why I cannot affirm something particular.
Meanwhile, I can't say it's 100% correct, but I found an interesting article about the left and the right side of buddha statues. The theory is as follows.
Initially there're 2 types of the statues. i.e.either raising left hand or right hand. To sum up, this indicates different intentions of buddha. If we premise that the essence of buddhism is "慈悲"(mercy), we can divide 慈悲 into 2, namely 慈(love) and 悲(compassion). Also we can divide the parts of buddha from 2 perspectives: 【Left or Right】 and 【upper or lower part of the body】.
Left and Upper signify 慈, whereas right and lower signify 悲.
That means, the statue raising left hand symbolizes left and upper, in other words, it's "慈慈"(double). hence we can assume, raising left hand indicates very strong 慈(because it's doubled).
Sorry if it's complicated. I hope it helps.

[@invokingvajras]

If I may clarify, since op seems to know Sanskrit, top/left indicates "maitrī. while bottom/right indicates "karunā."
@The Japanalyst その記事がどこにあるか思い出せば教えてくれませんか？

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Namo Buddhia from India.

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Yes

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Great job, i want to learn about buddhism?

[@rosepink1096]

Hi can you please tell the meaning of Lord Buddha's hand sign of right hand facing downward with palmside facing inwards.The left hand or palm is upwards like giving us Blessings
Thanks once again
😊🙏🙏🙏🌷

[@jiro333jp]

さらに深入りしてますね。勉強になります。今回やけによく理解できるなと思ったら、知らぬ間に日本語字幕がついてまいた(^_^;)　ところで神仏についてどこで勉強したの？

[@TheJapanalyst]

実は最初の方の動画は字幕がついております笑
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Very nice video and share! I myselfam study the hand signs since a few weeks so im gapoy to finsmd your channel!