Hand Prints on the Back of Paintings
Hand Prints: impressions from life, of famous Buddhist teachers, predominantly Kagyu, Gelug and Nyingma placed on the backs of paintings.
The most common additions to the back of a painting are:
[1] Mantras/dharanis,
[2] Auspicious verses,
[3] Stupa Drawing (or the inscriptions in the shape of a stupa),
and [4] Hand Prints.
(The images in this gallery are only a selection of hand print examples).