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The ancient auspicious mark as it continues in Asian religious practice.
Also known as: Auspicious swastika, Hindu swastika, Temple swastika
The swastika remains in continuous auspicious use in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain practice, on doorways, account books and temple thresholds. This is not a revival or a reclamation: it is unbroken use of a symbol that the Nazi party appropriated in Europe, and the catalogue records the two separately for that reason.
Continues in unbroken auspicious use in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain practice across South and East Asia.
Contexts: Religion
Is not a revival of a discontinued symbol: the Asian religious use was never interrupted, and the European Nazi appropriation is a separate and later history.
The Nazi appropriation of this form is recorded on the catalogue's own swastika record with its dates and context. This record covers the continuing Asian religious use and does not diminish or displace that history.
Contexts: Religion
Is drawn in both clockwise and anticlockwise forms in Asian practice, both of which are auspicious, which is a distinction often misreported in Western sources.
Contexts: Religion
A cross with four arms of equal length, each bent at a right angle, sometimes with dots between the arms.
The same form with two entirely separate histories.