The seated Buddha quietly touches (‘sparsha’) the earth (‘bhoomi’) beneath Him. There is a transition taking place within the superior mind. From a ll that is transient to the truly intransient; from the seeded to the seedless; from the all-encompassing havoc in, to the invincible stillness of the citta (psyche), the erstwhile Shakyamuni hurtles towards Buddhahood. With the stance of His hands (‘mudra’) He calls upon Mother Earth to witness this transition unto Enlightenment.The iconography of the Buddha that you see on this page is therefore called the bhoomisparsha Buddha. His legs are gathered in a superfine padmasana, the stance (‘asana’) of the lotus (‘padma’). The hips-and-knees trifecta are on the same plane, with the soles of the feet facing skywards and the spine in a steady, erect curve. There is an inimitable finesse in the body language of the Buddha, an unspeakable grace that has been captured with a great deal of skill in this particular murti. The same is complemented by the robes that clothe His princely form. Draped around His superb bone structure, it is a richly engraved projection of fabric. Not only are its silken folds as lifelike as real fabric, but so is the musculature - of limb and mid-torso - that is delicately revealed from underneath it.The bhoomisparsha Buddha figure is seated on a flat, tri-legged pedestal. Without the traditionally ornate throne, the focus shifts entirely to other aspects of the composition.