Fall Seminar – 12 Links of Dependent Origination
Demo Rinpoche
The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination provide an insight into the chain of unsatisfactory existence. There is no realm of life in which these realities do not exist. Perhaps the most profound part of the Buddha's teaching is the description of how this wheel of uncontrolled life, death and rebirth continues to keep rolling. By identifying the root cause, a method of how to stop the wheel is revealed. The insight into the links of the chain of existence is expressed in the depiction of the Wheel of Life. Legend has it that the Buddha himself designed the first illustration of it and offered it as a gift to King Rudrayana.