A pair of deer flanking the eight-spoked Dharma wheel on lotus flower, on the roof of Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet

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The eight-spoked Dharma wheel is generally seen as referring to the historical process of teaching the Buddha Dharma, the eight spokes referring to the Noble Eight-fold Path, with the deer being a direct reference to the Buddha's first teaching in the Deer Park, Sarnath. The deer is also a personification of virtues while the lotus often refers to the quality of compassion and the inherently pure potential of the mind.

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