Buddha's+Symbol+write+up

At the 瑞岩寺（rui yan si）temple we went during field trip, we saw many things such as The Four Heavenly Kings, Foo Lions, Symbol on the Buddha’s chest, and 10,000 miniatures of Buddha that show Buddhism. The symbol on the Buddha’s chest was different from some other symbols we used to see on the street or elsewhere.

卍(wan) is the symbol in the photo above and is now known as the symbol of Nazis.  In 1910 a poet and national Guido Von suggested that the symbol as an Anti – Semitic organizations. Today now swastika to most people is a symbol of evil. In Germany it’s called a hakenkreuz. Swastika is an equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles, all in the same direction, either clockwise or counter clockwise. The swastika was a symbol for the Aryan people. The Aryans were a group of people who settled in Iran and Northern India. They believed themselves to be a pure race, superior to the other surrounding cultures. The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit wordस्वस्तिक svastika – “su” means “good”, “asti” means “to be”, and “ka” as a suffix. It literally means “to be good”. The swastika is a symbol of prosperity and good fortune and it originally represented the revolving sun, fire, or life and symbolizes so much more than people usually know as Nazis planned. Clockwise and counter clockwise swastikas are common in both ancient and modern Indian art since the swastikas are used in both ancient and modern life. The swastika still continues today to be an extensively used sign in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism those religions are all originated from India. In Buddhism, a swastika represents resignation and is the 16th of the 32Buddhism signs, which is on the chest of Buddha. Some books say that before he became a Buddha, the golden 卍 was already on his chest. Some other books say that there were also 5 卍on his hair and one on his waist. 卍 means luck and is a sign but not a word. This is why the sign is also on the Buddha’s hand and leg. In Jainism, it describes their seventh saint, and the four arms are also used to remind the worshiper of the four possible places of rebirth; the animal of plant world, in Hell, of Earth, of in the spirit world. To Hindus, the swastika with the arms bent to the left is called the sathio which symbolizes night, magic, purity, and the destructive goddess Kali. The swastika is used to mark the opening pages of their account books, thresholds, and offerings in Hinduism and Jainism. Also the swastika is used as a part of the Jain symbol. 