A year earlier, a book he’d written on the three-thousand-year history of the symbol, “The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler’s Cross,” was dropped by his New York publisher. (A Holocaust ...

The lotus is often understood as a symbol of spiritual purity. The blooming of a lotus is said to mimic the Buddhist eightfold path — it grows from the mud (the cycle of life), it appears clean on the ...

The brand has claimed it was “the Buddhist symbol…for spirituality and good fortune” and not the Nazi symbol. The necklace has since been removed from the website, but many online took ...

The symbol, from ancient Sanskrit, means happiness and prosperity. It has been used for centuries by Hindus and Buddhists, and has turned up in archaeological digs in Europe. But many Western ...