# Makrana White Marble Bhumisparsha Buddha Statue, 24 in > The earth-touching gesture of enlightenment, carved in Makrana white marble at 24 inches for a home shrine or meditation corner. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-bhumisparsha-buddha-statue-24in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## The earth-touching gesture, and how to recognise it Bhumisparsha is the one moment Buddhist sculpture returns to more often than any other. Seated beneath the Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, on the night of his awakening, the Buddha lowers his right hand past his knee and touches the ground, calling the earth itself to witness that the realisation is his to claim. This 24-inch piece is arranged entirely around that instant. The right arm falls long and straight over the right knee until the fingertips meet the pedestal; the left hand stays open and flat in the lap, palm turned upward, completely still. Two hands doing opposite things, one reaching down and one at rest, is what separates bhumisparsha from an ordinary meditation seat, and it is the detail worth checking on any statue sold under this name. The rest of the iconography follows the canon: the ushnisha rising from the crown, elongated earlobes, the urna between the brows, a plain monastic robe over the left shoulder with the right shoulder left bare, and no crown or jewellery of any kind, which would make the figure a bodhisattva rather than the Buddha. ## Makrana white marble, and why the polish stops short of mirror The stone is Makrana marble from the quarries of Nagaur district in Rajasthan, the same belt that supplied the Taj Mahal and a stone that has been worked continuously for centuries. It is calcitic, dense and unusually low in porosity, which is why it holds a crisp edge on a fingertip or an eyelid and why it ages slowly indoors. This piece is finished to a soft satin polish rather than a mirror. On a face at this scale, a full mirror polish throws hard specular highlights across the cheek and brow and flattens the expression the carving works hardest to hold; the satin surface reads as an inner glow instead, which suits a seated figure meant to be looked at for a long time. Fine grey hairline veins run through the white. They are the signature of genuine Makrana stone, not a defect, and no two blocks carry the same pattern. ## Living with a 24-inch murti At 24 inches tall, roughly 16 inches across the lotus base and 12 inches deep, this belongs on a low altar, a console, or a built-in alcove. It should never go on the floor, which the tradition treats as a matter of respect rather than taste. It weighs about 52 kg, so the surface underneath has to be genuinely load-bearing: a solid wood chest, a masonry ledge or a stone plinth, not a hollow shelf or a glass top. Keep it indoors or under a properly covered verandah. Makrana marble is not a weathering stone, and monsoon rain will dull a satin polish over a few seasons. Day to day it needs almost nothing: a dry soft cloth, and no acidic or abrasive cleaner near the surface. ## Make it yours Every piece here is made to your brief. Height, the depth of the lotus base, the finish, and the treatment of the robe folds can all move; a 24-inch bhumisparsha Buddha is a common shrine scale, but the same form is carved smaller for a compact pooja room and considerably larger for a hall or a garden pavilion. We design the piece with you, brief the master sculptors we work with in Jaipur, and follow it through to delivery at your door. A commission of this kind takes 8 to 12 weeks, depending on the size and the level of detail you settle on. If your date is tighter than that, tell us early. There may already be a carved piece with the sculptors we work with, and we will ask and send you photographs of the actual statue before you decide. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** White - **Height:** 24 inches - **Width:** 16 inches - **Depth:** 12 inches - **Weight:** 52 kg - **Ideal for:** Pooja room, Meditation corner, Home shrine Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/makrana-white-marble-bhumisparsha-buddha-statue-24in.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues) ## Related pieces - [Makrana White Marble Karana Mudra Buddha Statue, 24 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-karana-mudra-buddha-statue-24in) - [Makrana White Marble Dharmachakra Buddha Statue, 30 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-dharmachakra-buddha-statue-30in) - [Cast Marble Dust Bhumisparsha Buddha Murti, 12 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/marble-dust-bhumisparsha-buddha-murti-12in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Makrana%20White%20Marble%20Bhumisparsha%20Buddha%20Statue%2C%2024%20in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-bhumisparsha-buddha-statue-24in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.