Symbols & Meanings – Page 2
The stories and traditions behind the symbols you see across our collection, from mantras, lotus flowers and thangkas to phoenix, crane, bamboo, peony, tiger, rabbit, auspicious clouds, fu, ruyi, qilin and the zodiac. Page 2 of 3.
Plum Blossom Meaning: Flowers Before Spring Arrives
Plum blossoms flower before spring fully arrives, carrying traditional meanings of resilience, hope, and integrity into paintings, jewelry, accessories, and teaware.
Butterfly Symbolism: 6 Meanings and Chinese Stories
Butterflies carry meanings of change, freedom, the soul, love, and long life, with Chinese stories adding distinctive layers to the familiar motif.
Peace Buckle Meaning: The Wish Within a Simple Circle
Understand the peace buckle through its circular shape, its customary wish for safety, and practical ways to choose a pendant, bracelet, or ring.
Heart Sutra Meaning: A Line-by-Line Reading Guide
Read the Heart Sutra passage by passage, with plain explanations of emptiness, its closing mantra, and respectful customs around inscribed jewelry and teaware.
Chinese Phoenix Meaning: Fenghuang, Harmony, and Art
The Chinese phoenix represents virtue and harmony, with a place in imperial tradition, wedding imagery, and the details of everyday decorative objects.
Crane Symbolism in China and Japan: Art and Meaning
Discover how Chinese and Japanese traditions interpret the crane, from immortal companions and symbols of rank to paper wishes, wedding motifs, and teaware.
What Is a Thangka? A Walk Around One, Border to Center
A museum-style walk through a Tibetan thangka, from its silk border and painted ground to the deity at its center, plus small ones for a shelf at home.
Chinese Dragon Symbolism: An Anatomy of the Creature
Chinese dragon symbolism breaks the creature into parts, from horns and scales to the chasing pearl, that still show up on jewelry today.
Tree of Life Meaning Across Cultures and Traditions
We compare how Norse myth, the Bible, Kabbalah, Celtic design, and Buddhism each read the tree of life, and why the shape fits jewelry and wall art so well.
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