What is the Buddhist "right-handed" method?

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The swastika is a common symbol found in statues and Buddhist artifacts, and is pronounced as "wan" or "murei mochiloloksha sac," and it is one of the thirty-two great phases of the Buddha, and according to the Nagarjuna Sutra it is the sixteenth great phases of the Buddha, which is located on the Buddha's chest. According to Volume 6 of the Sutra on the Sayings of the Great Sakyani Ganzi, it is the 80th good appearance of the Buddha and is located on the chest. According to Volume 12 of the Ten Grounds Sutra, when Siddhartha had not yet attained Buddhahood, there was the Vajra Swastika phase of merit and majesty in his chest.

Volume 3 of the Fang Dang Dang Shuang Yen Sutra says that there are five swastikas in the Buddha's hair. According to the 29th volume of the Vinaya Miscellany of the Arhat Sect, there is also a swastika on the waist of the Buddha. Volume 381 of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra says that the Buddha's hands and feet and the front of his chest are marked with swastikas.

This swastika is an auspicious symbol known as the Auspicious Sea Cloud, also known as the Auspicious Happiness Swirl. This symbol has long existed in India before Buddhism, the main gods of Hinduism, Vishnu and Krishna, there is a swastika phase in front of the chest, which is said to be chest hair. In ancient Indian legend, all the reincarnated kings who could rule the world had the thirty-two major phases. This symbol was first used in Buddhist texts in the third century BC. That is why the Vajrayogini Sutra states that the Buddha is the Holy King of the Dharma and has the thirty-two major phases.

The swastika has a left-handed and a right-handed rotation, and there are many different opinions on which one is right. The so-called left rotation means that the swastika bends to the left, as in the case of the swastika. The so-called right-hand rotation means that the swastika bends to the right, as in the case of the swastika. Some of the Buddha statues we see nowadays are left-rotated and some are right-rotated, which one is right? The answer to this question has to be seen in the context of a larger vein.

First of all, we have to realize that the swastika did not come into existence only after the advent of Buddhism. It existed in India long before Buddhism. In India, the symbol is called swastika, which is a composite of the words Su (auspicious) and Asati (there), a symbol of good fortune.

In addition, it has been found in places outside India. These places include China, Russia, ***, Japan, Egypt, ancient Crete and Troy, Scandinavia, Scotland, Ireland, Native American Indians in America, Maya in South America, Ararb, Mesopotamia, Rome and early Christianity, Byzantium. Because of the wide range of discoveries, it has been studied as a universal cultural phenomenon, which anthropologists call a "crosshatch" or "sunburst" and is generally believed to be associated with the sun.

Swastikas have been found in both left- and right-handed forms everywhere. In China, for example, archaeologists have found swastikas in Neolithic sites in Gansu, Qinghai, Guangdong, and Inner Mongolia before the introduction of Buddhism. And the swastikas found on pottery and silk in various places are left-rotated and right-rotated.

Some scholars believe that left-rotated and right-rotated have different meanings. One says that the right-spinning swastika represents the direction of the sun in the northern hemisphere from east to south and then in the west. The left-handed swastika, on the other hand, represents night. In India, the right-turned swastika represents the power of God the Father. The left swastika represents the power of the mother goddess. It is also said that the right swastika represents the power of life. The left swastika represents the power of evil.

These are the guesses of some scholars. Since the discovery of the swastika is quite common, and it does not seem to have spread from one place to another, scholars speculate that it must be related to something as important and universal as the human race. Some guessed it was the shape of an ancient castle that was easy to defend, and some guessed it represented the direction of the sun's movement.

At Sharipakha Jaya Yoga, we know that the swastika is the symbol of the deity Ganesha. Ganesha is the eternal child with an elephant head, four arms and four petals representing the root chakra. His representative element is earth and the corresponding mineral is carbon. Carbon is the origin of all life and the most important element in the earth. Ganesha is the first force separated by God the Father and God the Mother at the creation of the world, and therefore represents the force of life. Modern science has discovered that when you look at the "cloud of carbon atoms" from one angle, you will see (Alpha) and (Omega), from another angle, you will see an (Om), and from another angle, you will see a swastika.

When Buddhism was introduced to China, so was the swastika. But how this symbol was translated was a big headache. Hatmoroshi and Xuanzang translated it as "virtue", Bodhi Liuzhi in the translation of the "Ten Grounds Sutra" translated it as "ten thousand", that is to take the meaning of ten thousand virtues of perfection. In Wu Zetian's time, she simply separated the sound and meaning of the symbol. She decided to pronounce it as "wan", meaning "the collection of all auspicious virtues". As for the appropriateness of left-right rotation, Venerable Hui Lin of the Tang Dynasty, who wrote "The Sound and Meaning of All Sutras," decided that the swastika was the appropriate character, because the Chinese Buddhist scriptures have the swastika in its right-handed form. However, even in modern times, there is still a lot of inconsistency as to whether the character is left- or right-turned. For example, the character "卍" is written as "卍" in the Dictionary of Words (辞海), while it is written as """ in the Dictionary of Words. In modern times, because Hitler used a tilted right-handed swastika as the emblem of the Nazi party, many Westerners who do not know about Eastern traditions are surprised to see that this symbol is also used in Buddhism. The Buddhist swastika is centered and balanced, whereas the Nazi symbol is tilted at 45 degrees. The former represents good fortune, life and the power of creation, while the latter represents the power of destruction. As to why Hitler chose this symbol as the emblem of the Nazi Party, there are different theories.

One theory is that he asked archaeologists to research what symbols could be used to represent the Aryan race, and came up with the swastika. But in fact, this symbol existed in India 1000 years before the Aryan invasion. One says he saw the symbol in church when he was a boy and thought it had mystical powers. Others say that the word is actually the two S's of Hitler's Schutzstaffel, or SS for short, stacked on top of each other. It is said that the designer of this emblem originally designed it to be rotated to the left, but Hitler insisted that it be rotated to the right. The reason for this may be that Hitler had studied with the *** Lama, who taught right-handedness.

It is not uncommon for sacred symbols to be used upside down, as in the case of the Antichrist, whose symbol is an inverted cross. In Hindu mythology, Vishnu was incarnated as a lion-headed man, which is why there are upside-down sphinxes in Egypt. In *** Tantra, a corresponding Tantric deity was created for each Buddhist deity. It is the opposite of what is meant and is powerful enough to fight against the righteous gods.