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am familiar with the eastern version of the Swastika and aware that the symbol was hijacked by the nazis (see Seven Years in Tibet and such same movies)
I wait for further revelations to make up mind re the allegations re Nazis and Ukraines. Agnostic. Anything pitched by MSM automatically suspicious. NYT might be trying to set up a pivot so as to facilitate a rug-pull by Nato.
Frankly, should Nato fail to send boots to the ground of battle zone, then rug-pull already, never mind the failure to convert into war economy standing etc etc
OTOH, if Ukraine is a pawn / battering ram to trigger the Russians, very successful in a sense, or successful enough to try again using Poland, as seemingly cheered by the UK.
The difference between the Buddhist swastika symbol and the Nazi swastika symbol View all posts by senseiyuen January 4, 2018 In Japanese Buddhism, the Manji is an ancient and important spiritual symbol.
The Manji (Sanscrit: Svastika) represents the harmonious interplay of the many opposites in life – – heaven and earth, day and night, etc.
The horizontal line unites light and darkness, while the perpendicular line symbolically connects heaven and earth; and these two combined, form a cross representing the universe in harmony beyond the limits of time and space.
From this harmony comes the power that creates and nurtures all things.
The ‘trailing’ lines at the ends of the cross represent the truth that the universe and all things in it are in a perpetual state of flux.
There two types of Manji — one a mirror image of the other.
The ‘counterclockwise’ Manji — with the ‘trailing lines’ running from the ends of the central cross to the left (called “Omote“) — represents infinite mercy. This is the prevalent Buddhist Manji symbol in Japan:
The symbol used on maps and signs for Japanese temples is the manji (?) or swastika (which has no relation whatsoever with Nazi Germany).
Some argue that Hitler had seen the symbol on German churches and and chose it to represent the National Socialist movement in opposition to the Communist movement, which was atheistic in nature, and the Jewish connection to Communism (Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were all Jews).
Regardless of whether that is true or not, the Nazis adopted the “Ura Manji”, and tilted the symbol at an angle of 45 degrees (corners pointing upwards and invariably in black). Here is the much-hated Nazi swastika:
