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The wheel of life is considered an endless life cycle of human being. It is believed that to have been drawn first by Buddha himself. As seen in the picture, a minister demon, usually identified as yama the god of death, clutches the whole wheel. In the smallest circle at the center a pig, snake and pigeon symbolize the three cardinal sins of ignorance, anger and desirous attachment (jealousy and greed). In the narrow cercle around the innermost circle the light half at the viewer’s left shows figures ascending to higher levels of existence, the dark half at the right shows figures descending to lower levels. The six men segmented of the wheel depict the six world of existence. In the upper half are the relatively happier realms of the gods (in the centre), the demigods (at the right) and human being (at the left). In the lower half are the more wretched realms of the animals (at the left) hungry ghost (at the right), hell-beings (at the centre). In the outer rim of the wheel twelve scenes depict the chain of cause and effect. 8 ignorance : an old, blind man 8 compositional actions: a potter making pots 8 consciousness :a monkey climbing up and down 8 name and form :a man rowing a boat 8 the six sources: a house with five windows and a door 8 contact : a man and a woman embracing 8 feeling: a man shot in his eye 8 craving: a man drinking alcohol 8 grasping :a monkey grabbing fruits 8 existence: a pregnant woman about to give birth 8 birth: a baby being born 8 aging to death: a man carrying a corpse But, all of the forms of existence shown in the entire wheel, even that of the gods at the top are transient, and that is why the whole is held in his claws by the god of death.