hell-realm

plural hell-realms

1. alternativeAlternative form of hell realm.

   The hell-realm is a bad one to be born into.

   2004, Diane Morgan, The Buddhist Experience in America, page 51

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   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.

   1989, Kerry Brown, Joanne O'Brien, The Essential Teachings of Buddhism, page 132

   When this hell-realm of the world is annihilated, these miserable sinners will transmigrate to live and suffer in another realm.

   2000, Frank G. French, The Sutra of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vows, page 19

   when my mind is full of hatred, at that moment I am born in the hell-realm, suffering from an inflamed mind.

   2008, Tarmo Kulmar, Märt Läänemets, Humanistic Base Texts and the Mahāyāna Sūtras, page 291

plural Hell-Realms

1. alternativeAlternative form of hell realm.

   This Hell-realm is bankrupt of feeling, empty of meaning.

   1996, John E. Nelson, Andrea Nelson, Sacred Sorrows: Embracing and Transforming Depression, page 35

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   Of the six realms, three are reckoned as unfortunate: the Hell-Realm for people who hate; the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (or Pretas) for those who are greedy or lustful; and the Realm of Animals for the ignorant.

   1992, The Theosophist - Volume 113, page 289

   Heaven does have many different levels, of course. As does Hell-Realm.

   2014, Elizabeth Riebe, Laurie Stimpson, A New Sensation: Truth and Teachings from Jesus Christ, page 12

   […] opens a central symbolic paradox of the film—that a ship (body) inscribed with the Christian symbolic order, the Law of the Father, would serve as a gateway to a quasi–Hell-Realm of […]

   2018, M Chabin, “Horror and the Big Elsewhere: Traumatic Enjoyment in Event Horizon and True Detective”, in Clues, volume 36, number 2

   In Chiokkye purhwa 地獄系 佛畵 [Hell-Realm Painting], edited by An Kwisuk, Kim Chŏnghŭi, and Yu Mari, 113-180.

   2020, T Pak, “Picturing the Divine Agents of Food Bestowal: The Seven Buddhas in the Sweet-Dew Painting of the Chosŏn Period, 1392-1910”, in Korean Journal of Art History