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Over the millennia of its development, Hinduism has adopted several iconic symbols, forming part of Hindu iconography, that are imbued with spiritual meaning based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions. The exact significance accorded to any of the icons varies with region, period and denomination of the followers. Over time some of the symbols, for instance the Swastika has come to ...
Lakshmi is depicted in Indian art as an elegantly dressed, prosperity-showering golden-coloured woman standing or sitting in the padmasana position upon a lotus throne, while holding a lotus in her hand, symbolising fortune, self-knowledge, and spiritual liberation.
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion. [1] Religious symbols have been used in the military in many countries, such as the United States military chaplain symbols.
Halo (religious iconography) A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk'; [1] [2] also called a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole ( Latin: gloriola, lit. 'little glory') is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [3] that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions ...
Peace symbols. The symbol designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement in 1958 is now widely known as the "peace sign". A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized ...
Anthropomorphic symbolism depicting the Buddha (as well as other figures) became very popular around the first century CE with the arts of Mathura and the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara. New symbols continued to develop into the medieval period, with Vajrayana Buddhism adopting further symbols such as the stylized double vajra. In the modern era, new symbols like the Buddhist flag were also ...
A mandala ( Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanized :maṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism ...
National symbols are the sacred attributes for Ukrainian people. In Ukrainian graphics there exist a number of symbols and images from national songs, legends. Such symbols and imagery are used in national customs and rituals. They are reproduced in embroidery on national costumes, ritual cloth— rushnyks, painted on crockery, in forged products, in carving, in bas-relief house decoration, in ...