![]() ![]() Because of this Maudgalyayana was able to communicate very effectively. He also had extraordinary capacity to emphasize with others, see into their minds and hearts, feel their joys and pain and understand how they come to be as they were. Apparently this was only just one of Maudgalyayana’s abilities. Due to his monastery of psychic powers, Maudgalyayana was able to visit all the beings in the different realms of existence, see them in differing states of pain or pleasures and was aware of the causes which brought them to these planes and states. This instruction of the Buddha, so the text relates, was inspires from the activities of on of his chief disciples, Maudgalyana. According to the Divyavadana or Divine Heroic Feats of the Buddha and His disciples, the origin model of the wheel of life was painted over the gateway of the Veluvana Vihara at Rajagriha on the personal instructions of the Buddha who indicated exactly how the work should be done. The origins of this fascinating pictures are a little obscure but there are two or three sources which may account for its creation. ![]() The wheel of life in fact represents a very complete view of mundaine existence in its depths and heights. A good deal of misunderstanding surrounds its rich imagery and symbolism and I myself have often heard it described by Thanka painters in Kathmandu as being either an almanac, astrological chart or a complex Tibetan calender. It was at one time also very common in Buddhist India, but the Moslem invasion was so complete in its destruction of Buddhism in India only or two examples of it remain in the rock cut caves of Ajanta and Ellora in the state of Maharastra in India. The Tibetan Wheel of Life is perhaps the most common of all pictures in Buddhist art and can still be soon on the walls of monasteries temples and painted scrolls all over Tibet and Buddhist countries bordering the Himalayan region. ![]()
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