BTS leader RM’s military badge sparks Swastika controversy: ARMY clears misunderstanding, defends symbol’s sacred roots
BTS leader Kim Namjoon (RM) faced controversy after a photo of him in his military uniform surfaced online, showing a badge ...
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Hate symbol or Buddhist emblem? Hidden Villa cancels summer camps for 1,000 kids after staffers resign over swastika tiles
The camp’s founders, Frank and Jospehine Duveneck, purchased the tiles in 1913, years before the ancient Buddhist emblem was co-opted by Nazis into the hate symbol it’s known as today.
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Exploring the Mandala
Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...
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10 different uses of the swastika. None of them Nazi
The swastika is one of the most ancient symbols used by humans and has been ... Today it is often seen on maps signifying the location of a Buddhist shrine. At the beginning of the 20th Century ...