The land of the dead ruled over by Yama, the Lord of Death. While the dominion of Yama is often said to include the hells, too, in this and other texts “the world of Yama” mostly figures in mentions of the three lower realms and can be taken as referring to the realm of anguished spirits (preta), where beings generally suffer from deprivation, hunger, and thirst as the ripening of harmful actions driven by miserly attachment and stinginess. In a few passages, however (in chapters 32 and 46), the anguished spirits are explicitly mentioned as well as the beings of the world of Yama, and it is not clear what the distinction may be.

The realm where pretas are reborn, govered by Yama, the Lord of Death.

The world of Yama, the Lord of Death.

The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

One of the preta realms.

Another name for the hungry ghost realm.

The world of the Lord of Death.

The world of the Lord of Death.

Epithet for the preta (hungry ghost) realm.

This is a reference to the world of the pretas.

The world of Yama, the Lord of Death.

This is a synonym for the realm of the pretas, or hungry ghosts.

Another name for the realm of the pretas.

The realm of the Lord of Death is another name for the realm of hungry ghosts or pretas. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

In this text, another name for the hungry ghost realm; Yama is also sometimes said to preside over the hell realms.

The land of the dead ruled over by Yama, the Lord of Death. In Buddhism “the departed,” the pretas, are generally suffering hunger and thirst, as in traditional brahmanism is the fate of those without descendants to make ancestral offerings.

The land of the dead ruled over by the Lord of Death. In Buddhism it refers to the preta realm, where beings generally suffer from hunger and thirst, which in traditional Brahmanism is the fate of those departed without descendants to make ancestral offerings.

The land of the dead ruled over by the Lord of Death. In Buddhism it refers to the preta realm, where beings generally suffer from hunger and thirst, which in traditional Brahmanism is the fate of those departed without descendants to make ancestral offerings.

The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

See “world of the Lord of Death.”

One of the five (or six) rebirth destinies corresponding to the unfortunate realms of rebirth. According to Indian Buddhist sources, Yama, as the lord of death, presides over the realm of the (hungry) ghosts (Skt. preta), but Yama himself is considered to belong to the divinity class of beings (Skt. deva); his messengers are said to be birth, old age, sickness, and punishment, sent by him to remind us of the law of karma and to live virtuous lives. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

Another name for the hungry ghost realm.

The Vedic afterlife presided over by the lord of death, Yama, and inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).

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The world of the dead, another term for the realm of anguished spirits.