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Endless knot

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An interlaced endless-knot mark of later Buddhist and related ornament (one of the Eight Auspicious Signs in some lists). Not every knot, and not a Celtic tourist knot dump.

Also known as Shrivatsa · Eternal knot

Buddhist traditions

  • Endless knot appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Mahāyāna mark speech received through the Lotus world seats the endless knot among auspicious signs. A named endless knot in that sutra neighborhood, not knot as Norse binding-mark and not a Celtic knot dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.