hell-realm
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hell-realm (plural hell-realms)
- Alternative form of hell realm
- 1989, Kerry Brown, Joanne O'Brien, The Essential Teachings of Buddhism, page 132:
- For example, there is a hell-realm of constant conflict where we are born with a sword in our hand and we have to fight a never-ending onslaught of foes.
- 2000, Frank G. French, The Sutra of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vows, page 19:
- When this hell-realm of the world is annihilated, these miserable sinners will transmigrate to live and suffer in another realm.
- 2004, Diane Morgan, The Buddhist Experience in America, page 51:
- The hell-realm is a bad one to be born into.
- 2008, Tarmo Kulmar, Märt Läänemets, Humanistic Base Texts and the Mahāyāna Sūtras, page 291:
- when my mind is full of hatred, at that moment I am born in the hell-realm, suffering from an inflamed mind.