Today as we celebrate Vesak, D.C. Ranatunga unfurls the birth of the Buddhist flag - a symbol of Buddhist unity and reverence, created during the Buddhist revivalist movement in colonial Sri Lanka ...

The camp’s founders, Frank and Jospehine Duveneck, purchased the tiles in 1913, years before the ancient Buddhist emblem was co-opted by Nazis into the hate symbol it’s known as today.