| Swastika:
commonly seen on home walls or on
monastery floors. Meaning good fortune,
it symbolizes infinity, universe and
sometimes sun and moon. Buddhists
draw it clockwise while bon followers
draw it anticlockwise.
Kalacakra Seal:
an adorning motif in murals
or on monastery walls. It symbolizes
the highest initiations into occult
knowledge which can only be possessed
by a few high lamas.
Wheel of Life:
in murals or on monastery walls.
The demon of impermanence holds
a wheel, segmented into six sections,
which mean all realms of existence
respectively. These are: Heaven,
demigods, humankind, hell, hungry
ghosts and animals. The hub in the
center symbolizes ignorance, hatred
and greed, the three poisons.
Sun and Moon: usually
seen on village houses and top of
stupas. The adorning motif symbolizes
the source of light and union of
opposites.
Selected from: China
Travel Guide
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