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            The Dharma Wheel is used internationally by Buddhists of all sects. It has eight spokes and is also called the 'Wheel of Life'. 

When the Buddha gave his first sermon in the Deer Park, he began the turning of the Dharma Wheel. He chose the beautiful symbol of the wheel with its eight spokes to represent the 'Noble Eightfold Path'. The Buddha's teaching goes round and round like a great wheel that never stops, leading to the central point of the wheel, the only point which is fixed, Nirvana. The eight spokes on the wheel represent the eight parts of the Noble Eightfold Path. 

Seen on the roof of the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, China. 

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Taken in: 中國 / 西藏自治区 / 拉萨 (show map)

Taken on: September 3, 2013

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