Overview of the Wheel

This is an original rendition of a traditional Buddhist theme. Yama, as the Lord of Death, is holding up a mirror in the form of a disk. In this mirror we see, not our personal features, but an image of the world as a whole.

Each ring of the wheel has a link providing details.
They are as follows, reading from the centre outwards;

• The Hub - The three defilements that make the world go round.
• Rising and Falling - Beings passing from one world and arising in another.
• The Six Realms - The various worlds of Buddhist Cosmology.
• The Dependent Origination [ § ] - A detailed explanation in twelve stages of the causes of existence.

Are the various realms real? [ § ]