རྣམ་པ་ལྔ་ཡིས་བཅིང་། | Glossary of Terms

A term in the Pali Buddhist tradition for five kinds of severe punishments in hell, which those who have committed gravely negative actions will have to endure: (1) tattalohasecana, becoming doused with molten copper; (2) aṅgārapabbatāropana, climbing a mountain of glowing coals; (3) lohakumbhipakkhepana, being thrown into a (hot?) copper cauldron; (4) asipattavanapavesana, entering the forest of blades; and (5) vetaraṇiyaṃ samotaraṇaṃ, swimming across the river Vaitaraṇī (see Stede 1914, p. 37). The fivefold ordeal seems to partially overlap with the ordeals of the four secondary hells. The relationship between these two, as well as between the different versions of the secondary hells in different text corpora, awaits systematic investigation.