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ཡི་དགས། | Glossary of Terms
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གཅོད་བྱེད།
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- yi dgas
- gcod byed
- preta
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One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, into which beings are born as the karmic fruition of past miserliness. As the term in Sanskrit means “the departed,” they are analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. It is also commonly translated as “hungry ghost” or “starving spirit,” as in the Chinese 餓鬼 e gui.
The pretas live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death, where they are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. In Buddhism, they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
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- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The inhabitants of one of the three lower realms of cyclic existence, these are a type of spirit known for being tormented by unceasing and insatiable hunger and thirst. Often rendered as “hungry ghost.”
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analogous to the ancestral spirits of the Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst, and their realm is one of the three or four unfortunate realms of rebirth.
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- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
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A restless wandering ghost. In the Buddhist tradition, they are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire such sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of sentient beings constantly suffering from hunger and thirst, one of the six (or five) possible realms of rebirth.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analagous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death, analogous to the underworld of Pluto in Greek mythology. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A type of spirit known for being tormented by unceasing hunger and thirst.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed” and analagous to the ancestral spirits of the Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death, analogous to the underworld of Pluto in Greek mythology. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of sentient beings constantly suffering from hunger and thirst, one of the six (or five) possible realms of rebirth.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of spirits of the lower order, sometimes called “hungry ghosts.”
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of beings who, in the Buddhist tradition, are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of beings who, in Buddhist traditions, are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
“Ghost,” “Hungry ghost.”
- preta
- གཅོད་བྱེད།
- gcod byed
- preta
A class of nonhuman beings, sometimes called hungry ghosts. One of the six classes of beings.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dgas
- preta
A class of sentient beings constantly suffering from hunger and thirst. They also represent one of the six realms of rebirth.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Class of beings; literally “hungry spirit.” One of the six realms of existence.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of beings who, in the Buddhist tradition, are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead. More specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings who belong to the lower or unfortunate rebirth-destinies and who suffer from moderate to extreme dearth and want as a karmic result of negative actions based on craving, hatred, and attachment (see Exposition of Karma, Toh 338, UT22084-072-038-195). The common English rendering “hungry ghost” is a literal translation of the Chinese translation of preta, 餓鬼 e gui.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead; more specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower or “bad/unfortunate rebirth destinies” (apāya).
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. In Sanskrit, literally “the departed”; they are analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. In Sanskrit, literally “the departed”; they are analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of spirits; one of the three lower realms.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of spirits sometimes called hungry ghosts.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A type of spirit known for being tormented by unceasing hunger and thirst. The Sanskrit term generally refers to the spirits of the dead, but in Buddhism specifically it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower states of rebirth.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
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A class of spirits ever afflicted by hunger and thirst; also, spirits of deceased people in general.
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- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of spirits sometimes called “hungry ghosts”; also refers to the spirits of the deceased.
- preta
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of beings who, in the Buddhist tradition, are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the lower order of spirits with grotesquely misshapen bodies who endlessly suffer from hunger and thirst; also spirits of deceased persons.
- preta
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The sprits of the dead, roughly analogous to the pitṛs, the term from which preta is derived. In Buddhism the pretas are a class of beings that belong to the lower realms of rebirth and suffer from moderate to extreme hunger and want as the karmic result of negative actions based on craving, hatred, and attachment.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of beings who are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Literally “the departed,” and analogous to the ancestral spirits of the Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. In Buddhism they are said to suffer intensely, particularly from hunger and thirst.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of beings who in the Buddhist tradition are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
Type of being in Buddhist cosmogony.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the six classes of beings. In the Buddhist tradition they are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. In Sanskrit, literally “the departed”; they are analogous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- hungry ghost
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
A class of beings suffering interminable hunger and thirst.
- ghost
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
The Sanskrit preta literally means “departed” and generally refers to the spirits of the dead. More specifically in Buddhism, it refers to a class of sentient beings belonging to the lower or “bad/unfortunate rebirth destinies” (Skt. apāya); see also “realm of ghosts.” See also UT22084-072-038-205.
- ghost
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
- ghost
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
- anguished spirit
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. In Sanskrit, literally “the departed”; they are analagous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- anguished spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- preta
Also called a “hungry ghost,” an inhabitant of one of the three lower realms who suffers constantly from insatiable hunger and thirst, the karmic fruition of past miserliness. See “five destinies.”
- hungry spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
A class of beings who, in the Buddhist tradition, are particularly known to suffer from hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- hungry spirit
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dwags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.
- starving spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- ཡི་དྭགས།
- yi dags
- yi dwags
- preta
- 鬼
- starving spirit
- ཡི་དགས།
- yi dags
- preta
One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, considered to be the karmic fruition of past miserliness. In Sanskrit, literally “the departed”; they are analagous to the ancestral spirits of Vedic tradition, the pitṛs, who starve without the offerings of descendants. They live in the realm of Yama, the Lord of Death. They are particularly known to suffer from great hunger and thirst and the inability to acquire sustenance.