Nirarbuda
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nirarbuda naraka. (T. chu bur rdol; C. 刺部陀).[1] In Sanskrit, “blistering”.[2] The second of the eight cold hells of Buddhist cosmology. It is known as the "bursting blisters hell".[2] Its inhabitants are wracked with a cold wind that causes their bodies to be covered in sores that burst open.[2]
Dudjom Rinpoche states:
- The Hell of Burst Blisters. The intense cold in this hell causes the blisters to burst into running sores, from which worms with sharp mouthparts emerge, so that the beings there suffer from their skin being ripped open, and blood and lymph oozing out and congealing.[3]
Title variants
In Sankrit, the blistering hell is referred to as:
- nirarbuda [alt. arbudha] ("bursting blisters")
- nirarbuda naraka ("bursting blisters hell")
Note: the Sanskrit term nirabuda can also refer to a very large number.
In Tibetan, the bursting blisters hell is referred to by the following names:[2]
- ཆུ་བུར་རྡོལ་ [alt. ཆུ་བུར་རྡོལ་བ་; ཆུ་བུར་རྡོལ་བ་ཅན་] ("bursting blisters")
- དམྱལ་བ་ཆུ་བུར་རྡོལ་ ("bursting blister hell")
- ཆུ་བུར་རྡོལ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་སེམས་ཅན་དམྱལ་བ་ ("hell of bursting blister beings")
Notes
- ↑ The Chinese translation is from: wikipedia:Naraka (Buddhism).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
chu bur rdol, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Dudjom Rinpoche 2011, Chapter 7. Reflecting on the Defects of Cyclic Existence.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Dudjom Rinpoche (2011), A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom: Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala