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Buddhist Symbols

federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
edited August 2012 in Arts & Writings
@upekka asked, in another thread, what the significance of the colours in the '100% Buddhist' symbols signify:
As far as i am aware, they relate to the Buddhist flag, the colours of which (and the significance of each) is as follows:

Blue (Nila): Loving kindness, peace and universal compassion
Yellow (Pita): The Middle Path – avoiding extremes, emptiness
Red (Lohita): The blessings of practice – achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune and dignity
White (Odata): The purity of Dharma – leading to liberation, outside of time or space
Orange (Manjesta): The Buddha's teachings – wisdom

Comments

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited August 2012
    If this is the colour range you mean though, @upekka, I think the colours are just.... colours....
  • BonsaiDougBonsaiDoug Simply, on the path. Veteran
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    Also, according to Wiki: The sixth vertical band, on the fly, is made up of a combination of rectangular bands of the five other colours, and represents a compound of the other five colours in the aura's spectrum. This compound colour is referred to as Pabbhassara ('essence of light').

    As to that "100% Buddhist," yeah I think it's just marketing from a company that's trying to get rid of a bunch of swastika shirts it can't move.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    No, they've been going for quite some time... I got something off them about 6 years ago...
  • BonsaiDougBonsaiDoug Simply, on the path. Veteran
    edited August 2012
    federica said:

    No, they've been going for quite some time... I got something off them about 6 years ago...

    Perhaps true, but I've got to wonder just how popular is their rainbow colored swastika emblem. Got to be a pretty narrow clientele for that one.
  • upekkaupekka Veteran
    Thanks federica, BonsaiDoug

    it explains well

    @federica, colours are not just colours, i am definite about it, but i can not prove that or i do not want to argue about

    @ BonsaiDoug, the flag is Buddhist Flag using by Buddhist in Buddhist countries when ever there is Buddhist ceremany
    i am not quite sure when 'it comes to being- born' but i know it was there for more than 55 years, because i remember i have seen it when there was Wesak ceremony (celebrating Buddha's Birth, Deatha and Enlightenment) and any celebrating going on in Buddhist Temples
    :)
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