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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 ...
Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म, Pāli: kamma) is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing". In the Buddhist tradition, karma refers to action driven by intention (cetanā) which leads to future consequences. Those intentions are considered to be the determining factor in the kind of rebirth in samsara, the cycle of rebirth.
Yama, the god of death, is at the top of the outer rim. The outer rim shows the Twelve Nidānas doctrine. Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" [1][2] as well as "world," wherein the term connotes "cyclic change" [3] or, less formally, "running around in circles." Saṃsāra is referred to with terms ...
Characteristics. In Buddhism, saṃsāra is the "suffering-laden, continuous cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without beginning or end". [2][10] In several suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya 's chapter XV in particular it's said "From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration.
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 Hell (naraka). The first three paths are known as "the three ...
Metempsychosis. (Yokoyama Taikan) Metempsychosis (生々流転, Seisei ruten), alternatively translated as The Wheel of Life, is a painting by Japanese Nihonga artist Yokoyama Taikan. First displayed at the tenth Inten exhibition in 1923, it forms part of the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and has been designated an ...
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Catherine of Alexandria, by Carlo Crivelli. Catherine was one of the most important saints in the religious culture of the late Middle Ages and arguably considered the most important of the virgin martyrs, a group including Agnes of Rome, Margaret of Antioch, Barbara, Lucia of Syracuse, Valerie of Limoges and many others.