Wheel of life

MoNA Collection

Medium: Poster Color (Gold and Silver) 
Size: 68 x 63 cm
Year: 2018

About the Art

Bhāvachakra, "wheel of life," consists of the words bhāva and chakra. Bhāva means "being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, being, production, origin". The mandala is a complex picture representing the Buddhist view of the universe. To Buddhists, existence is a cycle of life, death, rebirth and suffering that they seek to escape altogether.
The Wheel is divided into five or six realms, or states, into which a soul can be reborn. It is held by a demon. Around the rim are depicted the twelve stages of dependent origination.

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