10.5 in. H Tabletop Tealight Holder with Candle Included

This piece represents Buddha in 'Bhumisparsha-mudra', the moment when he touched Mother Earth and invoked her to be the witness to the fact that he was able to outdo Evil.In Buddhist tradition Buddha's 'Bhumisparsha-mudra' has exceptional significance and represents one of the classical modes of Buddhist iconography. The moment, that this image depicts, is a moment of life when beyond it is all light and behind it all dark. In the life of Buddha, too, this posture constitutes the exact central point between darkness and light, between ignorance and absolute knowledge. He was midway to his attainment of Enlightenment.