Utpala naraka
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utpala naraka (T. ཨུད་པ་ལ་ལྟར་གས་པ་; C. 嗢鉢羅).[1] In Sanskrit, "blue lotus hell".[2] One of the eight cold hells of Buddhist cosmology. It is known as the "Cracked Like Blue Lotus Flowers", "Splitting Open Like a Blue Lotus Hell", etc.[3]
The extreme cold of this hell turns the skin of its inhabitants blue until they crack apart.[3]
Dudjom Rinpoche states:
- The Hell of Utpala-like Cracks. The cold is so much more intense that the skin turns blue and cracks, splitting into five or six sections.[4]
Notes
- ↑ The Chinese translation is from: wikipedia:Naraka (Buddhism).
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. naraka.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
ཨུད་པ་ལ་ལྟར་གས་པ་, 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