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Bhavachakra, "wheel of life," [a] consists of the words bhava and chakra.. bhava (भव) means "being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, being, production, origin". [web 1]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. [2]
Bhavachakra showing six realms of existence in which a being can reincarnate according to rebirth doctrine of Buddhism. Buddhist god Yama face is at the top of the outer rim. The outer rim shows the twelve nidanas doctrine. From Bhutan. Date: 22 October 2014, 13:01: Source: The wheel of life: Author: Nagarjun Kandukuru from Bangalore, India
The Six Paths [1] in Buddhist cosmology [2] are the six worlds where sentient beings are reincarnated based on their karma, which is linked to their actions in previous lives. These paths are depicted in the Bhavacakra ("wheel of existence"). [3] The six paths are: [4] the world of gods or celestial beings ; the world of warlike demigods
Like Jainism, Buddhism developed its own saṃsāra theory, that evolved over time the mechanistic details on how the wheel of mundane existence works over the endless cycles of rebirth and redeath. [118] [119] In early Buddhist traditions, saṃsāra cosmology consisted of five realms through which wheel of existence recycled. [111]
In Buddhism, the cyclical movement of a wheel is also used to symbolize the cyclical nature of life in the world (also referred to as the "wheel of samsara", samsara-chakra or the "wheel of becoming", bhava-cakra). [14] This wheel of suffering can be reversed or "turned" through the practice of the Buddhist path.
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The Gankyil (Tibetan: དགའ་འཁྱིལ།, [1] Lhasa [kã˥ kʲʰiː˥]) or "wheel of joy" (Sanskrit: ānanda-cakra) is a symbol and ritual tool used in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism. It is composed of three (sometimes two or four) swirling and interconnected blades.
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra in Mahayana Buddhism regarded the 10 kinds of Xian as separate immortal realms between the deva and human realms. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The six domains of the desire realm are also known as the "six paths of suffering", the "six planes", and the "six lower realms".