Pratāpana
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pratāpana. (P. mahātapa; T. rab tu tsha ba; C. dajiaore 大焦熱). In Sanskrit, “very hot.”[1] Seventh of the eight hot hells (naraka) of Buddhist cosmology. Known as the "very hot hell", "fiercely hot hell", "hell of intense heat", etc.[2]
Inhabitants of this hell undergo all the sufferings of the Hot Hell (tāpana), as well as being seared, beaten, and skewered.[2]
Dudjom Rinpoche states:
- The Hell of Intense Heat. The bodies of the beings in this hell are impaled from the anus to the shoulders and the top of the head on blazing steel tridents so that flames shoot out from all their openings. Their bodies are wrapped in incandescent sheets of metal and, upside down in boiling iron, copper, and brine, they are cooked like rice, destroying all the flesh and leaving only their skeletons. These are spread out on the iron ground, only to be cooked once more when the flesh grows back.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. saṃghāta.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
rab tu tsha ba, 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