Hell (niraya in Pali, or naraka) is divided into four categories: eight cold hells, eight hot hells, near hells, and lonely hells

Eight cold hells< /p>

The Eight Cold Hells are divided into: Bubble Hell, Bubble Hell, Tight-Tooth Hell, Ajujiu Hell, Huhu Hell, Split Like a Green Lotus Hell, Split Like a Red Lotus Hell, and Split Like a Big Red Lotus Hell< /p>

The pain of the Eight Cold Hells is different, so eight names have been established, called the Eight Cold Hells. The living beings here cannot seek life or death, and their life span is not one or two hundred years. Let’s use an analogy: A large pot of two hundred liters is filled with sesame seeds, and one sesame seed is taken out every hundred years. Until all the sesame seeds are taken out, the lifespan of the beings in the blister hell will be exhausted. The life span of the remaining seven Eight Cold Hells is twenty times longer than that of the Blistering Hell. From the blister hell to the red lotus-cracked hell, the life span is getting longer and longer, the environment is becoming more and more miserable, and the pain is getting greater and greater. The same is true for the life span in the Eight Heat Hells. We human beings cannot bear to stay naked outside for even a moment in winter, let alone being born in the Eight Cold Hells?

1. Blistering Hell: Although the pain in the Blistering Hell is the mildest among the Eight Cold Hells, it is still unspeakably painful. The ice that has been frozen for many eons is as hard as iron and as sharp as a knife. The wind, hail and snow are everywhere and the ice is everywhere. There is no clothing to cover the body, and there is no shelter from the cold. Among them, all living beings were so frozen that they were as stiff as corpses, unable to bend or stretch. The blood and other water in their bodies froze and swelled into horrific blisters all over their bodies. They were so miserable that they were beyond recognition.

2. Blistering Hell: This hell is similar to the former, but worse. Among them, the bodies covered with blisters are still blistered layer upon layer, until the sores are squeezed and burst. The whole body is like a huge wound, and the sores are not divided into red and white. The above two are described in terms of the external changes of living beings.

3. Tight-Tooth Hell: So far, hell is described by the changes in the voices of sentient beings. The living beings here were convulsed and curled up due to the cold, and their teeth made the sound of clenching together. The pain at this time was beyond words.

4. Ah Ji Ji Hell: Due to the severe cold that is even worse than before, the pain is unbearable. All living beings are forced by karma to cry miserably without any control. The whole hell is filled with heart-rending misery. The sounds of shouting and crying came and went.

Note: Ajiujiu means so cold.

5. Screaming hell: In the severe cold that is worse than before, all living beings are choked to death by the severe suffering. They no longer have the strength to scream. In despair and pain, they can only emit intermittent, suffocating and choking moans. sound.

6. Hell split like a green lotus: So far, the changes in the entire bodies of the beings in hell have been described. The bodies of the first five were tightly adhered to the ice, while the beings in this hell have become one with the ice. In an even colder environment, the entire body of the sentient being, including the skin and bones, deformed and burst into five or six petals, turning blue and no longer human.

7. Hell split like a red lotus: The living beings in this hell are similar to the previous one, but the conditions are even worse. The lobes in the living beings' bodies are deeper and larger, so much so that the entire body is peeled off from the inside out. More visceral frozen meat bursts into dozens of lobes and turns green and red in color. There is no distinction between the trunk, head and limbs on the pieces of meat.

8. Hell that is cracked like a big red lotus: The cold suffering of the sentient beings in this hell has reached the extreme, and the bodies that have been peeled off are more and more broken into hundreds of petals, like flesh sores, and the body is blooming like petals. Cracked, reddish-purple in color.

Eight Hot Hells

The Eight Hot Hells are divided into: Equal Living Hell, Black Rope Hell, Public Hell, Calling Hell, Big Calling Hell, Scorching Hell, and Great Scorching Hell. , Abi Hell

The eight hot hells covered the sky with scorching flames and burned iron to the ground. Countless hails of blazing fire and slurry continued to fall from the sky, and fierce fires broke out everywhere. Countless jailers chased and killed them with terrifying instruments of torture, and used various methods to kill them. Inflict harm in a cruel way.

1. The living hell: the burning degree of ordinary human fire, sandalwood forest fire, sun fire, and the fire of the end of the tribulation are increased by seven times. In this way, the entire realm of the living hell is seven times hotter than the fire of the end of the tribulation, and all living beings in it are burning. They still killed each other while burning, and were hacked and stabbed by the jailers. After death, they were resurrected by their karma, and they were born and died in an instant. The sentence is 500 years in living hell, which is equivalent to 1,665.3 billion years on earth.

2. Black Rope Hell: There are eight, sixteen, and thirty-two black lines drawn on the bodies of all living beings. They are cut along the lines by jailers with blazing saw axes, and their flesh and blood are dripping and their internal organs are flowing out. Wailed and screamed, life and death were restored. The sentence is 1,000 years in the Black Rope Hell, which is equivalent to 13 trillion years in the human world. The pain is 10 times that of living hell.

3. The Hell of All: In which all living beings are violently struck and crushed by two mountains shaped like sheep's heads, or hammered on a huge anvil, or ground in an iron mortar. Mud, bones and flesh were all broken into pieces and blood flowed into rivers, and then they were resurrected by the wind of karma. The sentence is 2,000 years in the collective hell, which is equivalent to 106.58 trillion years in the human world. The pain is 10 times that of Black Rope Hell.

4. Calling Hell: In it, all living beings are burned by fierce flames. Even if they are slightly close to the edge, they are thrown into the fire with terrible weapons by the jailers, and they wail loudly due to pain and terror. The sentence is 4,000 years called hell, which is equivalent to 852 trillion 640 billion years on earth. The pain level is 10 times that of Zhonghe Hell.

5. Crying to Hell: The situation is similar to Crying to Hell, but to a greater extent. There were blazing iron houses in all directions, and the beings inside opened their eyes wide with fear, and ran wildly with howls of agony, but there was no way out in all directions, and they screamed miserably in despair and pain. The sentence is 8,000 years screaming hell, which is equivalent to 6821 trillion 120 billion years on earth.

The pain is 10 times that of calling hell.

6. Scorched Hell: In it, living beings are not only roasted, burned, stabbed, and cut, but also have their mouths filled with hot molten iron and copper by the jailers. The mouthpieces and internal organs are melted in sequence, and then the solution mixed with flesh and blood passes through the nine gates. It flowed out; and a trident was pierced through the body from the anus to the head and shoulders, and then a red solution was poured into the wound, which was horrific. The sentence is 16,000 years in the scorching hell, which is equivalent to 5,084,160 billion years in the human world. The pain level is 10 times that of the previous five hells combined.

7. The Great Burning Hell: The scene is similar to the Burning Hell, but the misery is even worse. All living beings are stabbed into the body through the anus by the jailer with a mace, and the wolf fangs are as sharp as a hedgehog. The mess of blood and flesh seeping out from all parts of the body was so horrific that it was hard to describe. The sentence is half a calamity. The pain level is 10 times that of the previous six hells combined.

8. Abi Hell: In the iron house 20,000 yojanas high and wide, there is a fierce fire that never stops. Countless huge copper pots are filled with boiling molten iron to melt copper. There are fierce fires burning in all directions, and all living beings are tortured. Cook and stir. The pain of the aforementioned hell has not spread all over the body, and there is still a chance to breathe. However, the skin, flesh, bones, and blood of all living beings are mixed with the molten fire from the inside to the outside. The severe suffering lasts for a moment until the end of the calamity, so it is called endless. The sentence is one medium calamity. The pain level is 1,000 times that of the previous seven hells combined.

Nearside Hell

Nearby Hell is divided into: Simmering Pit Hell, Corpse Dung Mud Hell, Sharp Blade Hell, Sword Leaf Forest Hell, and Iron Pillar Mountain Hell

There are four hells on the four sides of Abi Hell: Simmering Pit Hell, Corpse Dung Mud Hell, Sharp Blade Hell and Sword Leaf Forest.

There are four in the east, four in the south, four in the west, four in the north, and sixteen in the ***. There is a Tiezhu Mountain in the southeast, and there are also Tiezhu Mountains in the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It is a subsidiary hell of Abi Hell.

1. Simmering Pit Hell: Due to the reduction of the karma of the Infinite Sins, I was released from the Infinite Hell. I saw a black shade in the distance and went there happily, but ended up falling into a pit of fiercely burning charcoal fire (Simmering Hell). In the simmering pit, the flesh and blood were scorched and the pain was unbearable.

2. Corpse Mud Hell: Get liberation from the previous hell (referring to the Simmering Pit Hell), and see a river from a distance, because it has been suffering in the fire before the destruction of the previous catastrophe. , so he was very thirsty. When he saw the water, he went to drink it happily. Where is the water? As a result, he fell into the sludge that emitted a strong stench and was filled with many small insects, including human corpses, horse corpses, dog corpses and other rotting corpses. In the end, his head was not in it, and he was pecked by many insects with sharp iron beaks, feeling endless pain.

3. Blade Hell: After being freed from the hell in front, I saw a pleasant green grassland and went there happily. However, what I encountered was a blade plain made of weapons. The entire earth It is covered with iron thorns as sharp as grass and burning with fire. If you step on it with your right foot, your right foot will be pierced, and if you step on it with your left foot, your left foot will be pierced. When you lift your foot, it will recover, and when you step on it again, it will be pierced as before. The pain will be unbearable.

4. Sword Leaf Forest Hell: The sentient beings who have just been released from hell run away excitedly when they see the pleasant forest. Where is the pleasant forest? What they encountered was a sword-leaf forest. Many sharp swords like leaves grew on the iron trees. They fluttered in the wind and cut the bodies of these living beings into pieces. They were cut again after resurrection, feeling the pain of cutting like this.

5. Tiezhu Mountain Hell: Monks who destroy the pure conduct of Brahma, break the precepts, or those who engage in adultery are reincarnated in this hell. Due to the pull of karma, I came to the terrifying Tiezhu Mountain. When I heard my favorite friend from the past calling me on the top of the mountain, I climbed up the mountain. At this time, they were pierced by the downward-pointing leaves growing on the iron tree. When they climbed to the top of the mountain, crows, eagles, etc. came to peck at their eye oil. At this time, they heard voices calling for them from the bottom of the mountain again, and they ran down the mountain again as before. All the leaves pointed upward again, piercing their chests and straight through their backs. When they reached the foot of the mountain, they were frightened by Tetsuo and Tetsuo embraced each other and swallowed their heads into their mouths. White brain matter flowed out from both sides of their mouths, which was extremely painful.

In addition, in some near-side hells and short-lived hells, the body and tongue are pulled out to a length of hundreds of kilometers, and the vicious jailers drive long iron nails through the tongue and body to the red iron The board was plowed on, and the suffering was so far away and boundless, and the relief was so unpredictable!

The Lonely Hell

The Lonely Hell is different from the eight cold and eight heat hells, which all have fixed places. Instead, they are lonely in the void or in the mountains according to each person's karma. among. That means leaving yourself alone to suffer the pain of a hellish situation. The location of lonely hell is uncertain, and so is the pain. Some were pinched in the cliffs, some were trapped in rocks, some were frozen in ice, some were boiled in boiling springs, roasted in fire, or, some were burned in fire... ...or it may be hidden in a tree. When the tree is cut off, its limbs and bones are also cut off in sections, and it suffers great pain. There are also some who are reborn in the physical realms such as pestles and mortars, brooms, earthen pots, doors, pillars, stove stones, ropes, etc. that are used in daily life and are forced to torture. Some live and die once a day, some live and die hundreds of times a day, or even live and die countless times a day, suffering the pain of life and death for a long time.