Karma in turn gives rise to the six realms, which represent the different types of suffering within samsara. Symbolically, the three inner circles, moving from the center outward, show that the three poisons of ignorance, attachment, and aversion give rise to positive and negative actions these actions and their results are called karma. The Buddha pointing to the white circle indicates that liberation is possible.The moon above the wheel represents liberation from samsara or cyclic existence.The fierce figure holding the wheel represents impermanence.The fourth layer represents the twelve links of dependent origination.The third layer represents the six realms of samsara.The pig, rooster and snake in the hub of the wheel represent the three poisons of ignorance, attachment and aversion.The bhavachakra consists of the following elements: The bhavachakra is painted on the outside walls of nearly every Tibetan Buddhist temple in Tibet and India, to instruct non-monastic audience about the Buddhist teachings. Legend has it that the historical Buddha himself created the first depiction of the bhavacakra, and the story of how he gave the illustration to King RudrДЃyaб№‡a appears in the anthology of Buddhist narratives called the DivyДЃvadДЃna. Different nerve plexuses within the body.The term chakra is also used to denote yantras (mystic diagrams), variously known as trikoб№‡a-cakra, aб№Јб№akoб№‡a-cakra, etc.

According to the Niruttaratantra, chakras in the sense of assemblies are of 5 types. In rituals, there are different cakrasДЃdhanДЃs in which adherents assemble and perform rites.

'Circle,' used in a variety of senses, symbolising endless rotation of shakti.

The word chakra is used to mean several different things in the Sanskrit sources: The word Chakra (а¤ља¤•аҐЌа¤°) derives from the Sanskrit word meaning 'wheel,' as well as 'circle' and 'cycle'. It is the tenth of the Twelve Nidanas, in its PratД«tyasamutpДЃda doctrine.

In Buddhism, bhava denotes the continuity of becoming (reincarnating) in one of the realms of existence, in the samsaric context of rebirth, life and the maturation arising therefrom. The Sanskrit word bhДЃva (а¤а¤ѕа¤µ) is rooted in the term bhava, and means 'emotion, sentiment, state of body or mind, disposition.' In some contexts it also means 'becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance' while connoting the condition thereof.

3.2 Western psychological interpretationД«hДЃvachakra, 'wheel of life,' consists of the words bhДЃva and cakra.Д«hДЃva (а¤а¤ѕа¤µ) means 'being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, being, production, origin'.

2.8 The Buddha pointing to the white circle: the path to liberation.

2.6 The figure holding the wheel: impermanence.

2.4 Third layer: the six realms of samsara.

Pictures of the wheel