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Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:33 am
by Ngawang Drolma
I always enjoy this
Interactive Tour of the Buddhist Wheel of Life. I hope someone here might find it useful.
Kindly,
Drolma
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:19 am
by sraddha
Thanks for the illustrated tour there!
Just shows how many beautiful ways the 12 steps of the Pratitya Samutpada (Pali Patitya Samutpada) can be represented and understood. If you click on the outer edges of the circle, it gives you the pratitya samutpada!
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:52 am
by Prasadachitta
I think of it as the wheel of Death.
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:59 am
by Ngawang Drolma
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:02 am
by Ngawang Drolma
Undertaking this and leaving that,
Enter into the teaching of the Buddha.
Like an elephant in a thatch house,
Destroy the forces of the Lord of Death.
Those who with thorough conscientiousness
Practice this disciplinary doctrine
Will forsake the wheel of birth,
Bringing suffering to an end.
-The Buddha
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:11 pm
by MJH
This is great! Thanks for sharing!!
Re: Tour of the Wheel of Life
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:37 am
by sraddha
I'm not sure it's ever referred in any Buddhist text as the "Wheel of Life" (or Death
) It's generally referred to as Pratitya Samutpada or Dependant Co-Arising or "Bhava chakra" cycle of being and becoming, the reverse is the "Nirodha" or cessation cycle.
More on the Pratitya Samutpada or Dependant Co-Arising -
http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/02/22/fea10.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The forward direction [anuloma] describes the arising of dukkha. The reverse [patiloma] is the ceasing of dukkha. Describing an exemplification of the structural fundamental principle beginning with vinnana, he says, 'Consciousness does not go further. It turns back on itself.'
