• དམྱལ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • dmyal ba chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭamahāniraya
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  • eight great hells
  • དམྱལ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • dmyal ba chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭamahāniraya AD
Definition in this text:

The eight great hot hells are usually listed as the Reviving Hell, the Black Line Hell, the Crushing Hell, the Wailing Hell, the Great Wailing Hell, the Hell of Heat, the Hell of Intense Heat, and the Hell of Unceasing Torture.

  • eight great hells
  • དམྱལ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • dmyal ba chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭamahāniraya
  • 八大地獄
Definition in this text:

The eight great hells are another way of referring to the eight hot hells: the reviving hell (sañjīva, yang sos), the black line hell (kālasūtra, thig nag), the crushing hell (saṃghāta, bsdus ’joms), the howling hell (raurava, ngu ’bod), the great howling hell (mahāraurava, ngu ’bod chen po), the hell of heat (tāpana, tsha ba), the hell of extreme heat (pratāpana, rab tu tsha ba), and the hell of ultimate torment (avīci, mnar med pa).

  • eight great hells
  • དམྱལ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • dmyal ba chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭamahāniraya
  • 八大地獄
Definition in this text:

The eight great hells are another way of referring to the eight hot hells: the reviving hell (sañjīva, yang sos), the black line hell (kālasūtra, thig nag), the crushing hell (saṃghāta, bsdus ’joms), the howling hell (raurava, ngu ’bod), the great howling hell (mahāraurava, ngu ’bod chen po), the hell of heat (tāpana, tsha ba), the hell of extreme heat (pratāpana, rab tu tsha ba), and the hell of ultimate torment (avīci, mnar med pa).