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Shinto, Taoist, Tibetan Buddhist and East Asian devotional material, alongside cross-tradition practices such as votive offering, sacred tree marking and coin deposition. This is the most editorially cautious group in the sprint. Members describe what a symbol is and what practitioners of the tradition are documented as saying about it; interpretive readings are labelled as interpretations rather than asserted; and where a form has been appropriated outside its tradition, that history is named separately rather than folded into the meaning. The record covering the continuing Asian religious use of the swastika is scoped explicitly and points at the catalogue's existing record for the European history rather than restating or diluting it.
A twisted rice-straw rope with hanging paper strips.
Zigzag folded paper strips hung in Shinto ritual.
Three stacked lines, each solid or broken.
Codified hand positions in Indian religion and dance.
A cylinder inscribed with mantras and turned by hand.
Five colours in a fixed order representing the elements.
A coloured floor pattern made at a threshold.
The ancient auspicious mark as it continues in Asian religious practice.
Vestment and hanging colours following the church year.
A niche in a mosque wall showing the direction of prayer.
Strings whose bead count identifies the tradition.
A circular diagram of the realms of rebirth.
An offering left in thanks for a prayer answered.
A hanging or standing vessel for burning incense.
A paired stone beast set at an entrance.
Abbreviated Greek letters naming the figure in an icon.
Cloths, ribbons and offerings tied to a tree.
A struck bell marking time or attention in worship.
The compass direction a burial faces, set by tradition.
Money left at a shrine, well or grave.