The gesture of meditation, or concentration (Sanskrit: Dhyana Mudra or Samadhi Mudra), is performed by resting either the left hand or both hands in the lap, with the palms facing upward and the fingers extended.  When only the left ‘wisdom’ hand makes this mudra, the right ‘method’ hand may be represented in any mudra, or may hold the specific attribute of the deity.  Many Buddha forms make this gesture with their left hand as a symbol of the stability of their meditative equipoise.  They often also hold an alms-bowl upon this upturned left palm as a symbol of their renunciation.  When both hands rest upon the lap, the right hand always rests upon the left hand.  This symbolizes that the perfections of method (right hand) are supported by the perfection of wisdom (left hand).  The tips of both thumbs usually touch when both hands united in dhyana mudra.  This represents to of the main psychic channels of white and red bodhichitta, which terminate in the thumbs, and which carry the united energies of method and wisdom respectively.  The dhyana mudra is the specific gesture of the Primordial or Adi-Buddha of the Nyingma transmissions, Samantabhadra, and also of the red Buddha of the west, Amitabha, the Buddha of ‘Infinite Light’.

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