Tag Archives: Yama

Sweet Soother of Souls

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Vajragoni

There are many horrors awaiting those who are consigned to the Buddhist Hells, but on occasion Compassion itself is to be found there and hopefully experienced. Eileen Gardiner’s Buddhist Hell: Visions, Tours, and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld, covers tales of those who descend into hell in order to comfort those poor and tortured souls who find no rest or comfort from their incessant inflictions. One of the Buddha’s major disciples, Maudgalyāyana or Mulian in Chinese Buddhism, has special powers that empowered him to communicate with the dead; he uses this power to visit his mother in hell in the hopes of saving her: read more

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Yama and the ill-fated being

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Vajragoni

In some Buddhist traditions there are Ten Kings of Hell, but the most prominent one is known as Yama. It is revealed in the suttas that Yama was himself reborn in hell because of his own former actions; pining for his former state as a human he yearns to be able to hear the Buddhadharma from the lips of the Blessed One and thus be liberated from his suffering: read more

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The Principle of the Thing

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Vajragoni

ii.30-31 Observing the Law is the beginning of Wisdom

2.30 The Five Principles of Yama are:

Non-Violence
Truthfulness
Integrity
Chaste Spirit
Non-Attachment read more

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Yoga’s Eight Limbs

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Vajragoni


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ii. 28-29 Yoga’s Eight-Limbs are the means to transformation

2.28 When the impurities have dried-up, Right Perception dawns pointing the way to Re-union with the Unborn. read more

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