Recognition of Buddhist art through mudra's iconography

Religious and mythical beliefs are the origin of many human movements, in the history of thought and always epistemological and intellectual evolutions are related to myth and religion. Art alongside religious beliefs and ritual IS the best way to displays the religious and mythological thought. In religions art, some motifs and symbols are not only the images but also a symbol of an exalted and mystic truth. Buddhist art, Like most religious arts is rich of signs which each of them carrier profound symbolic implications, which cannot be understood without semantic analysis. The used symbols in Buddhist art divided to three general categories: Non-icon, Semi-icon and Icon. Icon symbols contain icons and statues of Buddha and most important mudras of Buddhist that show the Steps of life of Buddha and his path for illumination, which are encountered as an important part of Buddhist art. This article seeks to draw Buddhist symbolic meaning of mudras with descriptive-analytical method according to the dominant features of Buddhist art.