Sentence examples for realms of hell from inspiring English sources

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According to the basic princi­ples of Buddhist cosmology, there is a hierarchy of several different realms of existence: the lower realms of hell beings, of animals, of hungry ghosts, of human beings, of various kinds of divine being collectively known as the lower gods, and above the various heaven realms of divine beings known as Brahmās.

After all, it is hard to imagine future generations forgiving us if we bequeath them a parched planet reminiscent of Dante's six realms of hell.

"Really, a pompom hat?" I ask one day, when the seminarian and my dad are both sitting across the table from me decked out in their full regalia, looking like two dark Muppets from the realms of hell.

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Writer Mark Lynas likens a 6C world to Dante's sixth realm of hell, replete with fireballs shooting across the sky, setting the planet alight into one never ending burning inferno.

What is most curious about limbo is that with our new knowledge of human reproduction, it becomes the most populous of the four realms of heaven, hell, purgatory and limbo.

From that center, enlightenment radiates outward in a spiral, passing through the various buddhas and bodhisattvas, descending through various levels of being and mind, outward to the phenomenal world as it becomes more and more concrete, reaching the human world and further into the realms of animals, hell-beings, and hungry ghosts.

To me, they denote a realm of Dantean hell reserved for drowsy snobs clad in paisley and velvet.

This book's greatest secrets are subterranean as it burrows into the infrastructures of cities and takes a downward spiritual turn toward the First Realm, a form of hell.

Yet for the composer, Msgr. Marco Frisina, Dante's journey to the three realms of the dead — hell, purgatory and paradise — was a score in waiting.

Actions motivated by greed, hatred and delusion have a tendency to drive those who do them into the three lower realms of suffering: the hells, the hungry ghost realm, and the animal realm.

What remained in the short story was the idea of a guy going off to some sort of hell realm and coming back infected with the violence he'd found there and then that violence bleating over onto those he loved … the idea that you can't train the mind to do Thing A ("be wrathful and terrifying," say) and then tell it to drop that knowledge when it suits you.

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