Buddhist cosmology is fascinating. Its description of hell, for example, is extremely precise in its time-duration. Today we will measure the length, size, and the pain of hell.
Naraka is the hell in Buddhist cosmology. It differs from the hell of Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment or punishment, but merely as a result of the evils (bad karmas) accumulated from previous lives; and secondly, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal. After a creature's karma is used up, they will be reborn in one of the higher worlds.
Physically, Narakas are thought of as a series of cavernous layers which extend below Jambudvīpa (the ordinary human world) into the earth.
There are 8 hot narakas and 8 cold narakas.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
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