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>From not@inmos.co.uk ('o-Dzin Tridral / Brian O'Donovan)
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>Subject: Re: Swastika apology
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 10:30:53 GMT
>
>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.
>
>     \
>   /\/
>    /\/
>    \   this looks truly awful, but you know what I mean ...
>
>All the best,

That symbol in Buddhist means the Universe.