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གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན། | Glossary of Terms
གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
gshin rje’i ’jig rten
Yamaloka
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The land of the dead ruled over by the Lord of Death. In Buddhism it refers to the preta realm, where beings generally suffer from hunger and thirst, which in traditional Brahmanism is the fate of those departed without descendants to make ancestral offerings.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
The world of Yama, the Lord of Death.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
One of the preta realms.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
Another name for the hungry ghost realm.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The world of the Lord of Death.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The world of the Lord of Death.
- World of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
- Realm of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The realm of the Lord of Death is another name for the realm of hungry ghosts or pretas. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).
- Realm of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
In this text, another name for the hungry ghost realm; Yama is also sometimes said to preside over the hell realms.
- Realm of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
- Realm of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
- Realm of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
- World of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
Epithet for the preta (hungry ghost) realm.
- World of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
This is a reference to the world of the pretas.
- World of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The world of Yama, the Lord of Death.
- World of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- Yamaloka
Another name for the realm of the pretas.
- Yama’s realm
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The land of the dead ruled over by Yama, the Lord of Death. In Buddhism “the departed,” the pretas, are generally suffering hunger and thirst, as in traditional brahmanism is the fate of those without descendants to make ancestral offerings.
- Yama’s realm
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The land of the dead ruled over by the Lord of Death. In Buddhism it refers to the preta realm, where beings generally suffer from hunger and thirst, which in traditional Brahmanism is the fate of those departed without descendants to make ancestral offerings.
- Yama’s realm
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The land of the dead ruled over by the Lord of Death. In Buddhism it refers to the preta realm, where beings generally suffer from hunger and thirst, which in traditional Brahmanism is the fate of those departed without descendants to make ancestral offerings.
- Realm of the Lord of the Dead
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).
- Realm of the Lord of the Dead
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The preta realm, or the realm of ghosts, where Yama, the Lord of Death, is the ruler and judges the dead. Yama is also said to rule over the hells. This term is also the name of the Vedic afterlife inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).
- Domain of the Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཡུལ།
- gshin rje’i yul
- yamaloka
See “world of the Lord of Death.”
- Realm of Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
Another name for the hungry ghost realm.
- World of Death
- གཤིན་གྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin gyi ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The Vedic afterlife presided over by the lord of death, Yama, and inhabited by the ancestors (pitṛ).
See also UT22084-072-008-6.
- Yama’s world
- གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- gshin rje’i ’jig rten
- yamaloka
The world of the dead, another term for the realm of anguished spirits.