TIBETAN, LION'S ROAR, HOP-GAR, LAMA KUNG-FU
總持門金剛獅子吼
The Lotus Palms 葉手
"Padma-Hasta"
& The Padma-Hasta-Mudra
葉手祕印
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The Padmahasta -Lotus Hands, 'Kinetic'-Mudra:
All SEED 'Hands' (Palms) in the Lion's Roar! Tantric Martial Art are part of a special division of techniques known in Sanskrit as the: Padma-Hasta "Lotus Palms" Han: 葉手 This includes the Pak-Hok-Tan-Juang 白鶴彈 手 "White Crane Springing Palm methods", which are a developed class of the Padma-Hasta.
However, there is a special sequence of hand motions that appears at the end of every Lion's Roar Form, these are the Padma-Hasta-Mudra, the 'Lotus Palm Seal' Han: 葉手印or specifically 祕印 'secret' and 'esoteric' seals.
The Padmahasta: Padma=Lotus Hasta=Hand sequence of movements is an Action/Kinetic-mudra at the end of all the Lion's Roar! Nata's (Forms) 工伎鬼
Starting with the Namaskara Mudra (Han: Tong-Ji-Bai-Faht - Child Worshiping the
Buddha's Dharma) - the 'prayer' position over the heart
The Namaskara Mudra is held over the Dharma-Chakra
法輪
(transmission of the
Law-Dharma, or 'heart' Chakra) See:
Mudra Signs and Seals Link
The hands open out to the sides so that the fingertips of the middle fingers
touch the thumbs are placed behind the hand. the eight visible fingers represent
an eight petaled Lotus flower - each petal for one path of the Noble 8-Fold Path
- 八聖道the root of the path to enlightenment in the Buddha's Dharma佛法.
The the hands move forward and then 'open out' symbolizing the opening out from
the heart of the Dharma in the Lion's Roar! Tantric Martial Art. The Art
is
transmission of the Dharma. The position they open out into is as in a
'Tan-Sau' position. The arms then revolve as in a Huen-Sau and withdraw to the
waist, thence into the Dhyana (meditation) Mudra over the Navel Chakra.
There are four basic hand positions (for each hand) The Tong-Ji-Bai-Faht (Han)
or Namaskara Mudra, is two 'Wu-Sau' positions, the fingertip extension of the 8
petaled Lotus flower, is as two 'Fook-Sau's', the opening out to transmit - to
'issue' (Sanskrit 'Tan' - to issue to extend or stretch out) is in two 'Tan-Sau'
(Spring-Hand) palm up positions. The revolving hands (circular) as two 'Huen-Sau'
positions complete the circle of transmission - it is to 'Turn The wheel Of
Dharma
轉法輪. In all 4 positions - the Four
Noble Truths - times 2, making 8 actions - the 8 Fold Path
八聖道
These four positions are the four basic short bridge hands in the Tantric Lion's
Roar Martial Art, NOT a complete list, but the four basic ones.
The return to the Dhyana Mudra reminds the L-R martial artists of the
Bodhisattva Vow, to remain in Samsara until all sentient beings have been
liberated by Dharma. So, each
Form
is a transmission, a
Karma-Yoga
, and at the end, a return to 'contemplation' or
Dhyana-Yoga
.
Vishnu (Krishna is an Avatar of
Vishnu)
In the Hindu Mahabarata, the central transmission is the Bhagavad Gita - The
Divine Song, where Vishnu
韋紐天, in his incarnation as Krishna guides the Warrior Arjana
阿周陀那on the eve of a great battle, thru the Yoga's to enlightenment. Note that
in the Gita, Krishna states that to some, he is known as 'Indra'.
因陀羅-
(in Sanskrit: इन्द), the Vedic God
whose weapon is the Vajra 金剛. There are many Yoga's in the Transmission of the Gita,
but special place is given to Karma-Yoga and Dhyana Yoga.
One of Krishna (Vishnu's) many other names in the Hindu Sanatana Dharma is:
Padmahasta = he with "Hands Like a Lotus"
Indra
Weilding the Vajra in his Right Hand
The Tantric Disciples and Students of Lion's Roar! should be instructed in the
meaning of this sequence of Mudra's, so as to be mindful of their Buddhist and
Hindu traditions.
In Hinduism, Buddha is sometimes said to have been an incarnation of
Vishnu/Krishna. Indra, Krishna and Vishnu are interchangeable.
Krishna, the Padmahasta: he with the Lotus Hands, is therefore both Indra and
Buddha.
The Hindu and Buddhist roots of the art of Lion's Roar Tantric Martial Art still live.
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