- གཅོད་བྱེད།
- དྲེ་ལྟོགས།
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- dre ltogs
- yi dgas
- gcod byed
- preta
- Term
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, into which beings are born as the karmic fruition of past miserliness. As the term in Sanskrit means “the departed,” they are analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. It is also commonly translated as “hungry ghost” or “starving spirit,” as in the Chinese 餓鬼 e gui.
They are sometimes said to reside in the realm of Yama, but are also frequently described as roaming charnel grounds and other inhospitable or frightening places along with piśācas and other such beings. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analagous to the ancestral spirits of the Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death, analogous to the underworld of Pluto in Greek mythology. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead. More specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings who belong to the lower or unfortunate rebirth-destinies and who suffer from moderate to extreme dearth and want as a karmic result of negative actions based on craving, hatred, and attachment (see Exposition of Karma, Toh 338, UT22084-072-038-195). The common English rendering “hungry ghost” is a literal translation of the Chinese translation of preta, 餓鬼 e gui.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead; more specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower or “bad/unfortunate rebirth destinies” (apāya).
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A type of spirit known for being tormented by unceasing hunger and thirst. The Sanskrit term generally refers to the spirits of the dead, but in Buddhism specifically it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower states of rebirth.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- egui
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the lower order of spirits with grotesquely misshapen bodies who endlessly suffer from hunger and thirst; also spirits of deceased persons.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- 餓鬼
- hungry ghost
- དྲེ་ལྟོགས།
- dre ltogs
- preta
- 餓鬼
Here called dre ltogs in Tibetan, though they are usually referred to as yi dwags.
- ghost
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead. More specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower or “bad/unfortunate rebirth destinies” (Skt. apāya); see also “realm of ghosts.” See also UT22084-072-038-205.
- ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- anguished spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- preta
- hungry spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- starving spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- preta
- 鬼
- starving spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta