法苑珠林 6.9

6.9

As the *Mahāvibhāṣā* says, hungry ghosts have two [types of] abodes: first, the primary; second, the peripheral. As for the first, the primary abode, the accounts vary. That treatise says: "Five hundred yojanas beneath this Jambudvīpa there is the hungry ghost realm, governed by King Yama; that is their primary place." The *Upāsaka-śīla Sūtra* also shares this account: "Five hundred yojanas below there is the city of the ghost king Yama, seventy-five thousand yojanas on all four sides. The king governs the assembly of ghosts and dwells within it." Furthermore, as the *Sūtra on the Sufferings of the Five Destinies* says: "These hungry ghosts primarily dwell between the two Iron Ring Mountains (Cakravāḍa)." Thus a verse says: