The Bhavachakra (Hindi: भवचक्र) means the wheel of life or the wheel of becoming. It represents the view that the Buddhist have for the universe. The Bhavachakra reveals the cycle of life, dead, rebirth and suffering which they try to escape from and reach Nirvana. Each of those realms your soul can be born into. The wheel is held by a demon. Around the wheel are twelve stages of dependent origination. The demon, which holds the wheel, is called Yama. In the middle of the wheel are represented the three causes of suffering, hatred, greed and ignorance in form of a pig a rooster and a snake.
Different realms:-realm of humans
-realm of gods
-realm of hungry ghosts
-realm of animals
-realm of hell
Outside of the wheel there is the Buddha, who is showing the way. He is outside of the wheel to show that he escaped from the cycle of rebirth.
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