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| Travelogue: By Country | By Date | Nepal | June 2001 | |||||
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Wheel of life. In the centere of the wheel are the three basic evils, symbolized by a dove (passion), a green snake (anger), and a pig (ignorance). The intermediate space between the centre and the rim is divided by spokes into five sections, depicting the possible states into which a person can be reborn. It's supposed to be the realms of gods, people, animals, ghosts, and demons, but we had trouble finding them. Around the rim of the wheel the 12 nidanas, or interrelated phases in the cycle of existence --ignorance, karman formations, rebirth consciousness, mind and body, sense organs, contact, sensation, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, and old age and death. |
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