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Dharmachakra

Symbols · Traditions

The wheel of dharma in Buddhist image, often with spokes. Not every wheel, and not Ashoka’s capital alone under a tourist name.

Also known as Wheel of Dharma · Dharma wheel

Buddhist traditions

  • Dharmachakra appears in Buddhist traditions.

    The Lotus Sutra’s teaching speech turns the wheel of the Dharma. A named Buddhist dharma-wheel in that sūtra, not a cart wheel and not a generic cycle-diagram.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.