I did hesitate a good while before writing up anything about the swastika, because although it's still used in Asian iconography as an auspicious symbol, I doubt it will ever lose the connotations of racism and white supremacy to most people in the West.

I was interested in your comment about the differentiation in Buddhism, between the clockwise swastika meaning creation/life and the counter-clockwise sauvastika meaning chaos! *S* This seems to be also true in Hinduism: the right-angled swastika as found in temples of Shiva represents his transforming and evolutionary aspect, while the left-angled sathio or sauvastika represents night, magic, purity, and the destructive goddess Kali. However, the left- or right-angled configurations symbolise the two opposing principles at the heart of Hindu cosmology, evolution and dissolution and neither has a negative significance. In either of its configurations the swastika is still commonly regarded as a sign of `good luck' and 'balance' all over India and elsewhere in the East.