三轮

The three wheels:

(1) The Buddha's (a) 身 body or deeds; (b) 口 mouth, or discourse; (c) 意 mind or ideas.

(2) (a) 神通 (or 變) His supernatural powers, or powers of (bodily) self-transformation, associated with 身 body; (b) 記心輪 his discriminating understanding of others, associated with 意 mind; (c) 敎誡輪 or 正敎輪 his (oral) powers of teaching, associated with 口.

(3) Similarly (a) 神足輪 ; (b) 說法輪 ; (c) 憶念輪 .

(4) 惑, 業, and 苦. The wheel of illusion produces karma, that of karma sets rolling that of suffering, which in turn sets rolling the wheel of illusion.

(5) (a) Impermanence; (b) uncleanness; (c) suffering. Cf. 三道.