Tāpana
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tāpana. (T. tsha ba; C. yanre diyu 炎熱地獄). In Sanskrit and Pāli, “heating”.[1] Sixth of the eight hot hells (naraka) of Buddhist cosmology. It is known as the "hot hell", "hell of heat", etc.[2] Inhabitants of this hell are boiled in cauldrons, roasted in pans, beaten with hammers, and skewered with spears as their bodies burst into flame.[2]
Dudjom Rinpoche states:
- The Hell of Heat. Here their bodies are cooked like fish in blazing iron cauldrons many leagues deep. They are impaled on fiery steel stakes from the anus to the top of the head, burning all their entrails and making flames shoot out of all their openings and pores, and thrown onto the burning iron ground to be pounded with blazing iron hammers.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. tāpana.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
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