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Five swastikas, five bats and the character meaning ‘longevity’. That is,
five-fold fortune and happiness, and a long life
it was interpreted more as an emblem of immortality.
The swastika can be angled clockwise or counter-clockwise. The former is the ‘seal of
the heart of Buddha’ and often to be seen on the breast of statues of Buddha.
In China, the symbol was a very old form of the character fang, meaning the four
regions of the world. From about AD 700 it has
Swastika motif in decoration: ten thousand years of luck
