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From: not@inmos.co.uk ('o-Dzin Tridral / Brian O'Donovan)
Subject: Re: Swastika apology
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 10:30:53 GMT
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Buddhist banners use both clockwise and anti-clockwise swastikas.
I thought that the nazi swastika stood on a corner rather than on 
a 'flat'...
Anyway, I remember being most surprised seeing swastikas in a 
Buddhist shrine room.  Whatever it used to mean I'm sure it'll
be a long time (if ever) before the swastika symbol can be
'rehabilitated' from it's nazi associations.

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    \   this looks truly awful, but you know what I mean ...

All the best,

  'o-Dzin
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