Padmasambhava: Three Gestures

The main form of Padmasambhava is iconographically described in many guruyoga publications and ritual texts. With the two hands he holds in the right a vajra scepter and in the left a skullcup supporting a long-life vase. The most common depictions found in art have the right hand holding the vajra placed upright at the heart. However, there are two other hand positions that are found although not as numerous as with the vajra at the heart. The second most common gesture is to have the vajra held over the right knee. The third, and much less common gesture is to hold the vajra upraised at the right side of the body. With each of these distinctive gestures, Padmasambhava can be referred to with a different name although these names accompanying the gestures are not always consistent between the many different Nyingma traditions and lineages.

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