Editing Bhavacakra (section)

{{Short description|A symbolic representation of cyclic existence}}
{{Other uses|Samsara (disambiguation)}}
[[Image:Sera Monastery Lhasa Tibet China 西藏 拉萨 色拉寺 - panoramio (3).jpg|thumb|238px|A painting of the ''bhavachakra'' in [[Sera Monastery]], [[Tibet]]]]
{{Buddhist term
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| title=bhāvachakra
| en= wheel of life,<br /> wheel of cyclic existence,<br />etc.
| pi= bhavacakka<br />([[Brahmi script|Brah]]: 𑀪𑀯𑀘𑀓𑁆𑀓)
| sa= bhavachakra<br />([[Devanagari|Dev]]: भवचक्र)
| zh= 有輪
| zh-Latn= yǒulún
| bo= སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་
| bo-Latn=[[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: srid pa'i 'khor lo; <br />[[THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription|THL]]: sipé khorlo
}}
{{Buddhism}}
The '''bhavachakra''' ([[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]: भवचक्र; [[Pali language|Pāli]]: ''bhavacakka''; [[Classical Tibetan|Tibetan]]: སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ, Wylie: ''srid pa'i 'khor lo'') or '''wheel of life''' is a visual teaching aid and meditation tool symbolically representing [[Saṃsāra (Buddhism)|saṃsāra]] (or cyclic existence). It is found on the walls of [[Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan Buddhist]] temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibetan region, to help both Buddhists and non Buddhists understand the core Buddhist teachings. The image consists of four concentric circles, held by [[Yama (Buddhism)|Yama]], the lord of Death, with an image of the [[Shakyamuni Buddha|Buddha]] pointing to the moon metaphorically representing the possibility for [[Nirvana|liberation]] from the suffering of reincarnation.