འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 1.18
The Quintessence of the Sun 1.18
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1.18
will be born in the great Hell of Unceasing Torment. There, for a lifetime stretching over eons, they will drink molten iron and copper, eat lumps of iron, and experience a variety of intense and unbearable harms while having to use clothes, resources, and belongings made of fire. Once the eons of their lifespans are exhausted, they will pass away and be born on paths within a dry and barren wilderness, with the general fortune of pretas with impaired legs, arms, and eyes. There, scorching winds blowing from the four directions will torture them, and they will experience torment and agony on razor-like grounds. They will undergo those types of suffering for many hundreds of thousands of years. When, in a rare combination of circumstances, they pass away and transmigrate, they will then be born within the great oceans as creatures with oblong shapes and bodies that measure a hundred leagues. Due to their previous actions, the water surrounding them will be red like molten copper for leagues. In those waters, they will experience the harms of the hell realms for many hundreds of thousands of years. Then, after they pass away, they will be miraculously born into a vast wilderness as creatures with oblong shapes as large as mountains. They will be burned by scorching winds blowing from the four directions, and wild beasts and birds will come to feed on them. If, in a rare combination of circumstances, they pass away and transmigrate, they will then be born into the great hells. Then, after passing away, they will experience such great misfortunes again and again. Considering their condition thoroughly, even if, in a rare combination of circumstances, they are then born with the general fortune of humans, they will be born blind in miserable circumstances, in buddha realms ripe with the five degenerations.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྡེ་ཉི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan