The ‘hungry ghosts’, shown in the lower segments of the Tibetan ‘Wheel of Life’ (q.v.). This is the Bst. purgatory where men in between lives are for a while tortured by their own unsatisfied desires. But no Bst. hell lasts...

a deceased one, a discarnate spirit who may linger for a time around the place of his former home before passing on to undergo the judgment of Yama (or of the guardians of karma), to be reborn according to...

Preta (Sanskrit) or Peta (Pāli), Tibetan yi.dvags, is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They are often...