Himalayan Art Resources

Subject: Footprints & Handprints Iconography

Footprints & Handprints Main Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description
- Outline Page
- Front of Painting
--- Footprints Only
--- Handprints Only
--- Double Handprints
--- Footprints & Handprints
--- Mandala-like Footprints
--- Background Footprints & Handprints
- Back of Paintings
- Hand Gestures Page
- Confusions
- Others...

Videos:
- Handprints & Footprints: Part 1
- Handprints & Footprints: Part 2
- Drogdze Wangmo HAR 65925
- Shingkyong Ragyal HAR 712

Iconographic Subjects:
- Deities
--- Shakyamuni Buddha
--- Vishnu
--- Shiva
- Teachers
--- Kagyu
--- Nyingma
--- Gelug
--- Others

Jeff Watt 11-2010 [updated 5-2017, 1-2020]

(See the publication Eternal Presence. Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art. Kathryn Selig Brown. Katonah Museum of Art, 2004).