Let's make a Dhamma Wheel - craft

Dear Friends,

So, you're feeling a little crafty.

So let's make a Dhammacakka.

Take a square of plain or colored paper and fold it into quarters.

Now fold it diagonally. (through Original center of the paper)

Fold diagonally again as in figure.

Cut along the curved lines leaving the 'shaded' portion, as in figure.


Unfold the portion and you should have an eight-spoked wheel which you can decorate. You could hang it up or make it into a flag. Try making several and threading them on a string. You could give them away as presents.

Dhamma Wheel as a Buddhist Symbol

With eight spokes it is 'The Noble Eightfold Path'.

Sometimes the wheel has up to a thousand spokes, appearing like the sun; representing the bright clear teaching that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

These meanings refer to the teaching of the Buddha so the wheel is usually called the Dhammacakka.

Dhamma is a word in the Pali language meaning 'truth' or 'nature'; which is what the Buddha was teaching; the truth of our own human nature.