![]() ![]() To the lower right is the Realm of Pretas represented by four naked ghostly figures breathing fire from their mouths. To the lower left is the Animal Realm represented by various four-legged creatures. To the right is the Human Realm with three figures and a cluster of buildings. At the top and to the left is the Realm of Gods and Asuras, grouped together, highlighted by a heavenly being in a palace and below that - fighting between the two groups. Each separated by an orange dividing line. Outside of that is a circle of five sections portraying the six realms of existence god, asura (anti-gods), human, animal, ghost (preta) and hell. ![]() The surrounding circle composed of a top white half and a black bottom half, shows those individuals collecting and expending actions (karma) moving upward in the circle of existence and then having exhausted that merit moving downward. In the center of the wheel are the three poisons represented by three animals, a black pig (ignorance), snake (anger) and a rooster (desire) circling on a black background. At the bottom of the painting is Sadaksari Avalokiteshvara, white, with one face and four hands. To the left side is a small standing Shakyamuni buddha and to the right is a seated Maitreya the next buddha of this age. This wrathful figure is sometimes referred to as Yama, the Lord of Death, and at other times as the red female daemon of death, possibly Yami, the sister of Yama. The large red figure of a personified Samsara (cyclic existence), wrathful, with one face and two hands, a crown of skulls and flaming orange hair is holding the circular wheel of existence pressed up against the mouth ready to be swallowed at any moment - representing the immediacy of impermanence. The Twelve Links begin at the 12:00 position with a blind man walking with a stick. The Wheel of Existence/Life (Tibetan: sid pa'i korlo, Sanskrit: bhava chakra). Object/Concept Interpretation / Description ![]()
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