sems can dmyal ba

84000 Standard Definition

One of the five or six classes of sentient beings. Birth in hell is considered to be the karmic fruition of past anger and harmful actions. According to Buddhist tradition there are eighteen different hells, namely eight hot hells and eight cold hells, as well as neighboring and ephemeral hells, all of them tormented by increasing levels of unimaginable suffering.

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Name Variants
14 names
Tibetan
དམྱལ་བ,སེམས་ཅན་དམྱལ་བ,དམྱལ་བ་པ
dmyal ba,sems can dmyal ba,dmyal ba pa
Sanskrit
naraka,nāraka
English
hell,hell realms,hell being,hell beings,those in the hells,beings in hell,hell realm,being in hell,beings in the hells