The Shape of Victory:
the Earth-Touching Gesture in Context

By Doug Smith

40 pages

There is no story of Gotama having touched the ground before his awakening in the earliest Buddhist texts describing these events

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Featured in the course, " The Buddha."

Published in 2022 in The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies.

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    title={{T}he {S}hape of {V}ictory: the {E}arth-{T}ouching {G}esture in {C}ontext},
    author={Doug Smith},
    year=2022,
    journal={The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies},
    volume=22,
    pages={187--226},
    keywords={buddha,bart},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/iijbs/vol22/iss1/8/}
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