Dharma wheel at gates of Sarnath, India

This dharma wheel symbolizes the Buddhist path to enlightenment (nirvana). Hindus and Jains use regard the dharma wheel as sacred, along with Buddhists. Gautama Buddha first taught in the deer park at Sarnath.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2009-12

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