Modern Pan-Buddhist Symbolism
At its founding in 1952, the World Fellowship of Buddhists adopted two symbols . These were a traditional eight-spoked Dharma wheel and the five-colored flag which had been designed in Sri Lanka in the 1880s with the assistance of Henry Steel Olcott .
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