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The swastika is a holy symbol in neopagan Germanic Heathenry, along with the hammer of Thor and runes. This tradition – which is found in Scandinavia, Germany, and elsewhere – considers the swastika to be derived from a Norse symbol for the sun. Their use of the symbol has led people to accuse them of being a neo-Nazi group. [176] [177] [178]
The swastika was also a symbol of protection from evil. [75] The ancient swastika (which are also Chinese characters, mainly 卍 and 卐) is common in Buddhist art. It is widely used in East Asia to represent Buddhism, and Buddhist temples. Buddhist symbols like the swastika have also been used as a family emblem by Japanese clans. [76]
There are many variations of the symbol in use currently. However, they do not show all the fundamental concepts embedded in the current emblem. For example, JAINA in North America uses a modified version of the standard Jain symbol. It replaces the swastika with Om because the swastika is associated with Nazi Germany there. [4]
The swastika is a symbol sacred to multiple Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. [51] Since the icon has been located in IVC artifacts, a continuum has been posited by a few scholars but it is a fringe view – Possehl finds such suppositions to be not "sound".
The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune, and was also used widely by ...
Dragon-pronged swastika, a guise which was common in cultures of central Eurasia, emphasised by Nikolay Levashov. [1] It is a symbol of Svarog, that is, the universe itself and especially Svarga, the supreme north pole of Heaven with the rotating constellations of the Small Chariot and the Great Chariot.
Followers of Tibetan Buddhism consider the Dalai Lamas and the Karmapas to be an emanation of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Various Japanese Buddhist schools consider their founding figures like Kukai and Nichiren to be bodhisattvas. In Chinese Buddhism, various historical figures have been called bodhisattvas. [137]
Despite the invocation of Buddhist language and symbols, the law wheel as understood in Falun Gong has distinct connotations, and is held to represent the universe. [2] It is conceptualized by an emblem consisting of one large and four small swastika symbols, representing the Buddha, [3] and four small Taiji (yin-yang) symbols of the Daoist ...