Among the six realms, the hell realm is the most painful. "Hell" is just a general term. In fact, it can be subdivided into four parts: the eight hot hells, the eight cold hells, the near hells and the lonely hells. Except for the lonely hell, all other hells are created by the collective karma of all living beings. Those who commit the most serious evil will be reborn in the hell realm, and it will take tens of trillions of years to escape the suffering of this realm. Living beings in the hell realm are not born from the mother's womb, nor are they born from eggs, but are born through transformation. Living beings reborn in the eight hot hells suffer all kinds of great suffering. In some hot hells, sentient beings will kill each other, but they will not die. They can only endure the pain of being killed for months and months, with no way to escape. In other prisons, sentient beings would be burned until the seven holes were smoking, or dismembered, or put into molten copper and boiled until the skin was broken and the flesh was rotten. These are the miserable conditions that appear when the bad karma of the past matures, and are unspeakably miserable. In the eight cold hells, sentient beings are forced to suffer varying degrees of cold pain, and may even be frozen and frozen for tens of billions of years, but they will not die because their karma has not been exhausted. I will not elaborate on the sufferings of other hells here (note: refer to the Master's book "The Wheel of Life and Death"). In short, the hell realm is the most painful of the six realms. The descriptions of hell in different Buddhist scriptures are also different. There are eight hells, one hundred and thirty-six hells, sixty-four thousand hells, etc. Abhidhamma Khasa: The 40,000 yuden below Jambudvipa, where all living beings live, is the Infinite Hell. Next to the Eight Heat Hells, there are the Eight Cold Hells that extend horizontally. The Chang Agama Sutra has eight hot hells, ten hells and sixteen hells. The biggest difference from other theories of hell is that hell is not located underground, but at the end of the world. The outermost part of the world of Mount Sumeru is surrounded by the wheel-like Iron Wheel Mountain, which is divided into inner and outer parts; Hell and the Palace of Yama are located here. The mountain with double iron wheels is a place where the sun and moonlight cannot reach, and violent storm winds called monks often blow. This wind can blow everything in the human world into powder, and it is accompanied by ultra-high temperature flames and stench. The eight hot hells are, in order, the Hell of Thought, the Hell of Black Rope, the Hell of Pushing, the Hell of Screaming, the Hell of Big Screaming, the Hell of Burning Moxibustion, the Hell of Great Burning Moxibustion, and the Infinite Hell. The ten hells in order are the Cloud Hell, the Cloudless Hell, the Hoho Hell, the Naho Hell, the Yangming Hell, the Suganti Hell, the Umbala Hell, the Kuwutou Hell, the Pundari Hell, and the Battumo Hell. The sixteen hells in order are black sand hell, boiling excrement hell, five hundred nails hell, hunger hell, thirst hell, one copper cauldron hell, many copper cauldron hell, stone grinding hell, pus and blood hell, measuring fire hell, and gray river hell. , Iron Pill Hell, Yi Ax Hell, Wolf Hell, Sword Tree Hell, Ice Hell. There are four gates on each side of the Eight Hot Hells of the Righteous Dharma Mindfulness Sutra, and four small hells are attached to each door. It is also called the Sixteenth Traveling Hell, the Four-door Hell, the Assistant Hell or the Near Side Hell, which is totaled with the Eight Hot Hells* **One hundred and thirty-six hells. The four small hells are the Simmering Hell, the Corpse Dung Hell, the Sharp Blade Hell, and the Liehe Hell. The eight hot hells and other living hells are located 1,000 yojanas underground in Jambudvipa, with a length and width of 10,000 yojanas each. The sentence is 500 years in living hell, which is equivalent to 1,665.3 billion years on earth. The Black Rope Hell is located under the Hell of Waiting for Death, and the pain is 10 times that of Hell of Waiting for Death. The sentence is 1,000 years in the Black Rope Hell, which is equivalent to 13 trillion years in the human world. The Joint Hell is located under the Black Rope Hell and is 10 times more painful than the Black Rope Hell. The sentence is 2,000 years in the collective hell, which is equivalent to 106.58 trillion years in the human world. The Calling Hell is located under the Union Hell, and the pain level is 10 times that of the Union Hell. The sentence is 4000 years called hell, which is equivalent to 852 trillion 6400 years on earth. The Big Screaming Hell is located below the Screaming Hell and is 10 times more painful than the Screaming Hell. The sentence is 8,000 years screaming hell, which is equivalent to 6821 trillion 120 billion years on earth. Scorching Hell is located under the Screaming Hell, and the pain is 10 times that of the previous five hells combined. The sentence is 16,000 years in the scorching hell, which is equivalent to 5,084,1,600 years in the human world. The Great Scorching Hell is located under the Scorching Hell, and the pain is 10 times that of the previous six hells combined.
The sentence is half a calamity. At its maximum, the flames inside reach a height of 500 yojanas and a width of 200 yojanas. Even 3,000 yojanas away from the Great Scorching Hell, the screams of sinners can still be heard. The Infinite Hell/Abi Hell is located under the Great Burning Hell, with a length, width and height of 20,000 yudan each. It takes 2,000 years for a sinner to fall here, and the pain is 1,000 times that of the previous seven hells combined. The sentence is one medium calamity. Eight Cold Hells and Blistering Hells: Sinners will have many blisters on their skin due to frostbite. The sentence is based on a 200-liter rice bucket filled with sesame seeds in Gosala City in ancient India. One sesame seed is taken out every 100 years, and the time after all is taken out is the sentence of the blister hell. Blister Hell The blisters that appear on sinners' bodies burst open and form sores. The sentence is 20 times the sentence in hell with blister. Teeth Hell Sinners must clench their teeth to stop them chattering. The sentence is 20 times that of the Blistering Hell. In Ah Jiu Jiu Hell, sinners cannot make normal sounds and can only make "A Jiu Jiu" sounds constantly. The prison term is 20 times the prison term in Tight-Tooth Hell. In Ah Hu Hu Hell, sinners cannot close their mouths and can only sigh "Ah Hu Hu" continuously. The sentence is 20 times the sentence in Ajuji Hell. In the Green Lotus Hell, the sinner's skin turns blue due to freezing and splits into four petals. The sentence is 20 times the sentence in Ahuhu Hell. In the Red Lotus Hell, the sinner's flesh is red and split into eight petals. The sentence is 20 times the sentence in Qinglian Hell. In the Dahonglian Hell, the sinner's body is frozen black and red. After splitting, the blood inside cannot spurt out due to freezing, and it splits into sixteen, thirty-two or countless petals. The sentence is 20 times the sentence in Red Lotus Hell.