Is There Scriptural Justification for The Wheel

[binocular]

I see a striking similarity between the icon of the wheel and mindmaps.

[Spiny Norman]

I don't recall the phrase "with death as condition, ignorance", so it doesn't look like DO was originally intended to go 'round that bend.

That's true if one just views the nidanas as events in a simple linear sequence, which is the conditionality of "When this arises, that arises". But the other mode of conditionality described in DO is, "When this is, that is", and IMO that points to the nidanas themselves being cyclical processes - so for example while the process of becoming exists the process of birth and death will also exist. Wheels within wheels.

[Spiny Norman]

More wheels here than you could shake a stick at...

I've always had an interest in the natural world, and have noticed that many natural processes are cyclical.

[binocular]

Well, it is called "the round of rebirth."

[bhavanirodha]

Dear all,

thank you all for your thorough replies. Please forgive this lateness of my follow up, as I don't have many opportunities to login.

Metta,
Andrew