The Eight Buddhist Hells (and the Hell of the Flaming Coc...Rooster)

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  • @Linfamy
    @Linfamy  2 роки тому +270

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    • @greekyogurt9997
      @greekyogurt9997 2 роки тому +1

      Hi

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 2 роки тому +4

      You admitted to murdering that yokai ice spirit a few weeks ago when she asked for a sponsorship, you're going to one of these places.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +9

      @@robertjarman3703 hopefully only the first one

    • @Nanami_X_Higurama
      @Nanami_X_Higurama 2 роки тому +5

      Dude will you ever make a video on the 9 stages of decay in Buddhism ?? Like choso , kechizu and all that ??

    • @Infinitebrandon
      @Infinitebrandon 2 роки тому +1

      Good one lin. I'd love to comment more later but I'm in the ghetto that my family has made hell. Kids aren't safe so I gotta get busy

  • @pantitapalittapongarnpim1581
    @pantitapalittapongarnpim1581 2 роки тому +5481

    As someone who's raised a buddhist, _this_ is the reason that when anyone comments "Buddhism looks like a sensible and peaceful religion", I snicker.

    • @ayush.kumar.13907
      @ayush.kumar.13907 2 роки тому +54

      i don't know how Buddhism and Hinduism were so successful in spreading their eternal nonviolent religion narrative to the whole world, despite being from countries at the receiving end of european colonization and imperialism?

    • @VR00100
      @VR00100 2 роки тому +336

      Then you haven't understood anything about Hinduism or Buddhism
      BOTH THE RELIGIONS MAIN AIM IS TO TELL PEOPLE TO NOT STEAL, KILL, RAP* OR BETRAY
      How do I know? I study in a Hindu school where they teach us Mahabharat and Ramayana
      AND BOTH RELIGIONS PROMOTE PEACE

    • @VR00100
      @VR00100 2 роки тому +397

      Another thing is that unlike Christianity were you can get away WITH THE WORST CRIMES just by apologising to God even if you sinned willfully
      In other religions they are actual consequences

    • @Sqk.
      @Sqk. 2 роки тому +77

      Then clearly you were raised in a sect very far from the peaceful origins.

    • @19Pyrus70
      @19Pyrus70 2 роки тому +298

      @@VR00100
      Actually, the Bible mentions that on Judgement Day, many people will claim to have done great things in Jesus' name & that Jesus will declare that he never knew them before sending them to their fate.
      The Bible also claims that judgement begins with the House of the Lord meaning that the first group to face judgement will be all those who say they serve God.
      It's also said that even those who pass muster will still get a beating if they actually did make a misstep.
      You just have to search through the New Testament to find the relevant scriptures (like Revelations, or the 4 books detailing Jesus's ministry).

  • @Hilversumborn
    @Hilversumborn 2 роки тому +2953

    Christian: Go to Hell!
    Buddist: Which one?

    • @gamingdragon1356
      @gamingdragon1356 2 роки тому +141

      @@skraskraa._.5371 They are supposed to laugh their butts of thinking that people not following Christianity would be going to hell.

    • @gamingdragon1356
      @gamingdragon1356 2 роки тому +15

      @@skraskraa._.5371 yes they are.

    • @dirckthedork-knight1201
      @dirckthedork-knight1201 2 роки тому +48

      @@gamingdragon1356 Thats actually a folk belief without much backing in scripture

    • @martiddy
      @martiddy 2 роки тому +32

      In Dante's Inferno (which is based in Christian mythology) there are 9 circles of hell.

    • @mistylover7398
      @mistylover7398 2 роки тому +5

      All of them lol

  • @marafolse8347
    @marafolse8347 2 роки тому +1294

    I often worry that one of the thousands of religions is actually correct and I’ll just end up going to some weird hell despite living a life I think is ethical. This video does not help that fear.

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist 2 роки тому +168

      I kind of relate to that, but still choose to be non religious. Maybe if whatever god or gods are out there, are truly just, they will focus more about the life you actually lived, choices you made and perhaps intentions and values, than on whether you guessed the right religion which is basically just a gamble and speculations, if not merely following whatever religion you were raised in. And when we either way dont know for sure, its better to make our choices and values based on what we actually do know.
      Either way I personally just would not change my values for any religion, even if I knew it to be true. I still think for myself (and try to be a good person in my own way), and thats the leading reason why Im not religious and most likely wont ever be. There still could be just about any religion that is right, but those who are religious tend to be way too confident that they KNOW and dont just believe

    • @Sarsenwood
      @Sarsenwood 2 роки тому +86

      @@zakosist Don't forget the Anti-Pascal's Wager, which posits there's an equal chance a god exists who punishes you for believing in it, or punishes you for being good. Basically, everyone goes to hell, so you had better hope there isn't one!

    • @warriordinag3921
      @warriordinag3921 2 роки тому +45

      Most of them are about living an ethical life anyway, so it wouldn’t matter as long as you kept expanding your ethics as you learned more stuff. That way you become less and less likely to pick “bad” decisions as time goes on.

    • @Sp3ctralI
      @Sp3ctralI 2 роки тому +10

      Why I’m agnostic

    • @Pippis78
      @Pippis78 2 роки тому +1

      You follow every single rule all your life. Then you die, end up in hell and while confused how and why that happened you're told "wrong religion, wrong rules - whoops, lol."

  • @Elementroar
    @Elementroar 2 роки тому +581

    I love the idea that there are multiplayer hells, and single player hells if the crime you did was too unique or kinky.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +114

      Elden Ring is a single player hell.

    • @eldritchcupcakes3195
      @eldritchcupcakes3195 8 місяців тому +5

      @@Linfamyok listen I know you mean “lol playing elden ring is hard” but for a second I thought you meant that a possible Buddhist bell would be having to live in the word of Elden ring, which would also suck. Surprisingly it’d suck the least out of all the fromsoft souls games, but still

    • @Grain_of_wheat
      @Grain_of_wheat 8 місяців тому +5

      ​@eldritchcupcakes3195 I would not be surprised if living in yharnam was one of these hells, I honestly think it would be very interesting if a hell worked like a videogame you can't win where you are constantly tantalising close yo wining, but always keep dying in the most brutal of way 3 seconds from victory

    • @Chris_winthers
      @Chris_winthers 27 днів тому +1

      You go to an MMO hell if you committed a normie sin, a co-op hell if you committed a special sin, and a single player hell if you're creative enough to be the first person to commit a sin

  • @skinnywhiteboy5590
    @skinnywhiteboy5590 2 роки тому +121

    I love how all of them are excruciatingly over the top and then there's "climb a really thorny tree several times"

    • @Funny_ish
      @Funny_ish 2 роки тому +15

      In some cases, there are also birds and dogs, birds to peck out your eyes while climbing and dogs to devour you if you decide to get too close to the ground

    • @JJM8043
      @JJM8043 Рік тому +16

      ​@@Funny_ish What's even worse is that the trees are apparently 65 kilometers tall (that's a little over 40 miles).
      Imagine trying to climb a tree taller than Mount everest.

    • @clintonbehrends4659
      @clintonbehrends4659 9 місяців тому +5

      @@JJM8043 well at least the thorns can hold you in place.... probably

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas 2 роки тому +3309

    I get the distinct impression that people who wrote Buddhist Scriptures had a childlike fascination with big numbers.
    “You’re going to Hell for a Bajillion years!”
    “Well you’re going Hell for infinity years!!!”
    “Well you’re going to Hell for Infinity plus 1 years!!!”

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +130

      Actually, there is deep meaning in these metaphors. Like Buddhist cosmology, humans are evolved from monkeys.

    • @BlackSakura33
      @BlackSakura33 2 роки тому +168

      No. These numbers come from astronomical calculations. Unlike Christians, asians had calculated specific numbers and distances in the astronomical systems which were quite accurate. And they clearly had understood that the universe is billions of years old and not merely a few thousand.

    • @bellathebeaglebeauty8169
      @bellathebeaglebeauty8169 2 роки тому +55

      Lord Buddha himself discribed the nature of the hell. Those teachings were first went orally between monks and later written on scripts. Some teachings that you hear these days aren't hundred percent true because most of them are Mixed with ideas of people.If you want to learn pure Buddhism you can refer Thripitakaya and other suthra pitaka

    • @josueromerotorrico4453
      @josueromerotorrico4453 2 роки тому +61

      At the end of the day, Budhism comes from Hinduism and hinduism has all that kind of stuff too. Like the cycles of destruction and reconstruction of the universe, the yugas, lasting numbers of years in the 9 digits.

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +46

      @@josueromerotorrico4453 nope, today's Hinduism was a copy of Buddhism. in old Hinduism they sacrifice cows, goats for the Shiva, maha kali. Old Hinduism was like the Pegan religion later Buddhism become popular and many old Hindus changed many things. You can still see some old Hindu ideologies in Nepal and india

  • @ワンダフルバニーモヒロザ
    @ワンダフルバニーモヒロザ 2 роки тому +855

    These hells are so over the top so they might sound silly, but oh boy, as a Japanese, they used to scare the shit out of me. Back in my elementary school, there was a picture book depicting them on the classroom bookshelf. Imagine looking at those old-timey yet super graphic drawings of demons torturing people in creatively horrible ways as a 6 years old. And the worst thing is, it says it is a fate for someone who ate cooked animals, which you know, you have done countless times at that point. Gave me so many nightmares.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +201

      Lol what a great book to put in a classroom

    • @lsmmoore1
      @lsmmoore1 2 роки тому +102

      And by the logic used there - with the assumption that those animals are sentient - you'd expect to find at the very least every bear and every cetacean (and I mean EVERY cetacean since they're all entirely carnivorous) suffering in that hell along with 99% of humans who ever existed.

    • @Makofueled
      @Makofueled 2 роки тому +71

      @@lsmmoore1 the bears didn't cook them so they're off the hook. Sushi is now legal by technicality!

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist 2 роки тому +31

      I wonder if anyone decided to just eat all meat raw (instead of actually going vegan) after hearing the "fate" of those who eat cooked animals. I know there are people who do that as a diet, and I have eaten raw meat myself, but I mean specifically for that religious reason

    • @-SteampunkTraveler-
      @-SteampunkTraveler- 2 роки тому +3

      @@Linfamy 💀

  • @stellaG_luna
    @stellaG_luna 2 роки тому +2037

    This was very interesting but I would be very grateful if you would talk about the cold hells as well.

    • @titangirl161
      @titangirl161 2 роки тому +48

      They're on Wikipedia, most likely under the term Naraka. That's how I knew about them

    • @19Pyrus70
      @19Pyrus70 2 роки тому +24

      So that's(!) where the name of the location of the temple of The Queen of Darkness in the Dragonlance novels comes from.
      That's interesting.🤔

    • @nazmulrupam7034
      @nazmulrupam7034 2 роки тому +19

      Naraka also means hell in Indian languages

    • @13lilsykos
      @13lilsykos 2 роки тому +6

      @@19Pyrus70 - Hooray for Dragonlance! My husband named gave his daughter the middle name 'Laurana' after a character in those books.

    • @19Pyrus70
      @19Pyrus70 2 роки тому +4

      @@13lilsykos
      That would be the Qualinesti Elf Princess Lauralanthalasa or "Laurana" as everyone in the book ended up calling her (and I'm probably spelling her full name wrong😅).

  • @cageybee7221
    @cageybee7221 2 роки тому +91

    it sounds like whenever someone pisses off a buddhist monk, that monk describes a hell specifically for them.

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 4 місяці тому +6

      It's like centuries of Eastern Dante Alighieris writing their own revenge-fics for everyone who ever pissed them off... doesn't seem very Buddha-like.

    • @minhhoangvo4759
      @minhhoangvo4759 25 днів тому +1

      Right?!😅

  • @carrioncrow13
    @carrioncrow13 2 роки тому +99

    Whoever thought of those punishments must have been one hell of a bunch of sadists.

    • @cbgaming7209
      @cbgaming7209 2 роки тому +24

      Or multiple hells of a bunch of sadists

    • @carrioncrow13
      @carrioncrow13 2 роки тому +6

      @@cbgaming7209 Shit, you're right!

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 4 місяці тому +2

      Or nursing some serious grudges.

    • @carrioncrow13
      @carrioncrow13 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Xbalanque84 You're also right!

    • @PsychologicalApparition
      @PsychologicalApparition 29 днів тому

      They arent "thought up." That is your mind not wanting to believe it.
      Listen to NDE hell testimonies. Their hells were their own makings... but it isnt forever, just as they also say.
      When you pop out of your body, all that shadow content goes with you, too. If it is not fit for the Absolute reality, you go to the purging spheres.

  • @AGS363
    @AGS363 2 роки тому +1160

    Wow, Buddhism sure came a long way from the old "everything is an illusion" and "all exiting is suffering" days.

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +49

      If you break the illusion of your karma there is no suffering. Your suffering and happiness are all illusions of your karmic Seeds.

    • @alexclo5901
      @alexclo5901 2 роки тому +10

      @@user-Void-Star So the karmic seeds are just lies? Like the whole ask forgiveness and get into heaven Christian thing?

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +47

      @@alexclo5901 this is not Christianity bro it's buddhism. In buddhism no upper creator god dictate your actions your actions dictate by your own karmic illusion.

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +21

      @@alexclo5901 karma is like a habbit before you become smoker you were clear but after habbit of smocking it's hard to leave.

    • @willowbarrelmaker8269
      @willowbarrelmaker8269 2 роки тому +23

      As I understand it, there's a difference between theistic Buddhism, where you literally worship Buddha as a divine figure, and philosophical Buddhism, which is more rooted in the kinda secular philosophies of it all.
      No shade to either branch obviously, they're both fascinating religions.

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas 2 роки тому +844

    I finally got around to watching Big Trouble in Little China and this actually explains a lot about all the various Hells brought up in that movie.

    • @Hilversumborn
      @Hilversumborn 2 роки тому +17

      Great movie

    • @WildBillCox13
      @WildBillCox13 2 роки тому +3

      Welcome to the world, friend! Now you're ready for your graduate course in the Cinematic Martial Arts! Subtitle alert!
      ua-cam.com/video/UqWDlviQcOg/v-deo.html

    • @veiga1000
      @veiga1000 2 роки тому +3

      Theres a lot of hells

    • @barbieblues7639
      @barbieblues7639 2 роки тому +6

      It mentions them but doesn't exactly explain anything.... Not exactly the most educational of movies 😂😅

    • @Founderschannel123
      @Founderschannel123 2 роки тому +9

      @@veiga1000 i think there is also another hell that you might be interested called dante's inferno.

  • @MegaMisch
    @MegaMisch 2 роки тому +701

    The statement at 8:00 made me curious so I did some math.
    Let's say a flame the size of a bean is around 1g of air in mass, it's probably less but this will keep the numbers "low".
    The land mass of india is around 3.2 million km^2, while earth is around 501 million km^2. This makes india around 6.2% the surface area of earth.
    We have around 5.5 quadrillion kg of air on earth (5.5×10^15kg) so at 6.2% that makes india have around 3.4*10^14kg of air.
    Next we make some assumptions. Average air temp on earth is about 14°C but india is a fair bit hotter at about 25°C... still a lot of that air is in the upper (and colder) atmosphere so let's take a smaller average and call it 16°C. Or about room temperature.
    Now finally we have all the numbers we need. Let's mix our 1g of super heated hell fire with our 3.3*10^17g of 16°C air. We need for the final temperature to light the entire country on fire. Let's aim for 600°C which is in fact the lower end of fire temperatures.
    The equation is T=(M1*C1*T1 + M2*C2*T2) / (M1*C1 +M2*C2) where C is the specific heat of the fluids we are mixing... air is 1.005 but don't worry because they are the same fluid* so it doesn't matter to much. (Technically one is a plasma, please ignore that, this is hard enough aready)
    After all is said and done we find that our 1g of air hell fire had to have a temperature of 1.9*10^20°C.
    The highest temperature ever reached that we know of was 5.5*10^12°C by CERN. CERN reached temperatures greater than any star and our bean sized hell fire absolutely dwarfs it being 10 million times hotter.
    I'm starting to think hell just might be a tiny bit excessive...

    • @prashantdeo1520
      @prashantdeo1520 2 роки тому +39

      Can u calculate wavelength of light possing this much amount of energy? Using (hc/lamda) if the wavelenght is greater than 1 plank length then it is Theoritically possibpe

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +141

      Lol thanks for doing the calculations

    • @DeltaOdyssey
      @DeltaOdyssey 2 роки тому +59

      I know this isn't reddit but r/theydidthemath

    • @MegaMisch
      @MegaMisch 2 роки тому +63

      @@DeltaOdyssey Truth be told it's actually off by a lot. I made a small conversion error that makes the whole thing off by about a factor of 1000.
      The earth has 5.5 quadrillion *TONS* of air, not kg's. Meaning the end results should be around 10^23°C not 10^20°C.
      I'd fix it in the original post but I figured the numbers are so big already that it's largely a meaningless difference to us on a human scale. Plus it's already a very crude way of obtaining the relative temperature, there are so many unaccounted factors like phase changes and heck, nuclear fusion, that I figure it's good enough as a sort of "Fermi Estimation" rather than a exact figure.

    • @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana
      @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 2 роки тому +6

      Don't complain. It makes the Hell Dwellers die quicker and be put out of their misery.

  • @nicobones9608
    @nicobones9608 2 роки тому +110

    When I was growing up, a lot of people told me that Christianity was this brutal and cruel religion because of things like Hell. These people said they preferred Buddhism because it was far softer and kinder. The more I learn about Buddhism, the less I am persuaded that these people had any idea what the F*** they were talking about.

    • @neardarkroad1347
      @neardarkroad1347 Рік тому +17

      well, you already have people claiming "THAT IS NOT TRUE BUDDHISM" in the comment section.

    • @wallerwa4
      @wallerwa4 Рік тому +13

      At least Buddhist hells tend to be temporary and creative.

    • @anonbrick2532
      @anonbrick2532 Рік тому +4

      If you want a religion that is really soft and gentle, you should talk about Taoism, it doesn't talk much about the afterlife.

    • @Thigamabob
      @Thigamabob 10 місяців тому

      To be fair though christians brought much more bloodshed than Buddhists so they're kinda right.

    • @Pooky1991
      @Pooky1991 10 місяців тому +3

      One thing I learned delving into the backstories and histories of every religion, is that all of them, including the modern day ones have craziness and wild shit that would make for some cool movies.

  • @mr.quilava2062
    @mr.quilava2062 2 роки тому +47

    Linfamy: If someone describes this hell they would spit out blood and die
    Also Linfamy: So, Ill describe it for you

  • @LadyCoyKoi
    @LadyCoyKoi 2 роки тому +541

    The many hells from Buddhist and Hindu texts make Dantes' Inferno look like a trip to Disney. 😱💀

    • @stalloneandrew9961
      @stalloneandrew9961 2 роки тому +63

      atleast Dante's Inferno was more of a Christianity Fanfic, while Buddhist's and Hindu's version of Hell all probably true

    • @Sameer2762
      @Sameer2762 2 роки тому +6

      😂😂 I found so many similarities with mine.

    • @thelordz33
      @thelordz33 2 роки тому +31

      @@stalloneandrew9961 I mean, if you are a Buddhist, you might think that. I don't particularly see their hells as any more real than Dante's Inferno.

    • @LadyCoyKoi
      @LadyCoyKoi 2 роки тому +7

      @@thelordz33 That is what I think too... For all we know, they are all true, because each soul carries a destiny, thus individualized rewards and punishments are properly set for each soul depending what we do or not. 🤔 One could never know till that time comes.

    • @Frazzilla1969
      @Frazzilla1969 2 роки тому +4

      meh, I recall the lady whose eyes were wired shut in Purgatory... or the guy who was dead and his body possessed by a devil on earth "because the devil was better than him". Dante's hell is very poetic and less brutally descriptive as this (cause well, Dante also said some living people like the Pope would end up there...) but flames from the sky? the "sodomites" (ie "p3dophiles" in old florentian) still got that.

  • @yesiwillstealurwig6589
    @yesiwillstealurwig6589 2 роки тому +565

    My mother wanted me to be raised a buddhist, and i was planning to, but when i was eight years old, i watched a movie about the hells, and it traumatized me so much i couldn't sleep for a week. It was about chinese hells, but it was the same concept as japanese hells. This is why im was not so sure about being a buddhist anymore, and chose to be atheist. Although with my recent fear of death, i feel like I should have found some other faith to believe in

    • @treestump6534
      @treestump6534 2 роки тому +10

      Do you remember the name of the movie?

    • @scoobydicky9459
      @scoobydicky9459 2 роки тому +2

      I dont know.

    • @_SxlarMMM619_
      @_SxlarMMM619_ 2 роки тому +39

      But the thing is we are talking abt hell here, you got to hell for doing bad things. So if you don't do bad things you won't go to hell

    • @Menzobarrenza
      @Menzobarrenza 2 роки тому +38

      I'd recommend looking into whether or not a religion is actually true, as the first priority.
      If all you're looking for us comfort, you can just make up your own.
      One such thing sould be looking into the historical evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus, and another would be looking into the evidence for the Qur'an being factuality trustworthy. That should give you insight into Christianity and Islam, respectively.

    • @idontknowwhatiamdoing.8329
      @idontknowwhatiamdoing.8329 2 роки тому +25

      @@_SxlarMMM619_ True, but you don't know whether if your next reincarnation is going to do something bullsh♡t.
      As a buddhist, growing up I have sinned more than I want to admit and it presures me to accept the truth that I probably have to deal with those karma in hell or get ordian and reached enlightenment within this short life....

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 2 роки тому +330

    Teenagers are also known for suffering in a hell of their own creation.

    • @amethyst5538
      @amethyst5538 2 роки тому +46

      And adults. Alot of adults. Infact most grownups.🤣

    • @jessym6161
      @jessym6161 2 роки тому +24

      Most people over 12?

    • @Ungern12405
      @Ungern12405 2 роки тому +2

      @@jessym6161 14 - 18

    • @amazinggrapes3045
      @amazinggrapes3045 Рік тому +3

      Parents, actually. Insist on having children then complain every minute of it

  • @leonardodavinci3589
    @leonardodavinci3589 Рік тому +19

    As a Norse pagan, I had no idea our torment afterlife zone was comparatively so chill. Nastrond is for oathbreakers, murders, and adulterers only, and they get chewed on by Nidhogg (big ass snake) presumably until ragnarok

  • @stezified6017
    @stezified6017 2 роки тому +75

    I’m an agnostic (atheist) and this video was really interesting. Everything about Buddhism is just amazing. The hells, the sixfold of reincarnation, the gods, the torture methods, etc.

    • @chichiro8625
      @chichiro8625 2 роки тому +1

      Does buddhism have gods?

    • @chichiro8625
      @chichiro8625 2 роки тому +2

      Buddhism doesnt has any gods i

    • @Jesus_is_savior
      @Jesus_is_savior 2 роки тому +1

      If ur an atheist ur still going to hell and suffering even worse tortures from what I know 😰

    • @petrlidovy8469
      @petrlidovy8469 2 роки тому +3

      @@chichiro8625 The gods in buddhism are like people in heaven and they die one day

    • @name-yn6vu
      @name-yn6vu 2 роки тому +3

      @@chichiro8625 gods in buddhism are either devas (beings living in the upper realms. They have the power to change our world, like how you have the power to help or hinder ants, but they generally don't care), or in Japanese Buddhism, Kami (not strictly gods, but that's the closest word in English to what they are. Spirits is also a good translation).

  • @scarlettblythe
    @scarlettblythe 2 роки тому +835

    I knew *absolutely nothing* about Japan or Japanese history before I found your channel, and had no real interest.
    Now I'm obsessed, and it's entirely your fault. Thanks for that.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +110

      Success >:)

    • @lechking941
      @lechking941 2 роки тому +5

      @@Linfamy how ever when you run out of content they will be another problem instead

    • @starcatcherksp1517
      @starcatcherksp1517 2 роки тому +4

      @@Linfamy Your humor is impeccable

    • @Sohasorouri
      @Sohasorouri 2 роки тому +1

      666th like*

  • @shirleyniedzwiecki1104
    @shirleyniedzwiecki1104 2 роки тому +161

    Scrolling through the repetitious offerings on UA-cam, it’s a lighthearted pleasure to see Linfamy, no matter how dark the material.
    Truly enjoy your take on the Daishonin

  • @Makem12
    @Makem12 2 роки тому +77

    You get a Hell.
    You get a Hell.
    You all get a Hell!

  • @austinreed7343
    @austinreed7343 2 роки тому +241

    Greek Hell: Eternal, but reserved for the worst of the worst
    Buddhist Hell: Temporary but really long, and where most people go.
    Abrahamic Hell: Eternal, and for basically everyone

    • @GregTom2
      @GregTom2 2 роки тому +55

      Incorrect. There is no hell in Judaism. There is only Sheol, the sojourn of the dead, and the possibility for resurrection. Some of the ancient writings in the Tanakh seem to have a rather agnostic view on death. (See quote from the book of Ecclesiastes dated between 400 to 200 bc)
      "Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
      I assume that when you say Abrahamic, you mean Christian and Islamic. You would be mostly correct, though some Christians believe that hell is instantaneous, rather than eternal. The "Gehenna" that Jesus refers to a couple times in the Gospels was a field where people incinerated garbage and some corpses. Some interpret is as a metaphor representing the obliteration of the soul, the annihilation of the "self". Permadeath. Nada. Nihilo. The End.
      "If there is no resurrection, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die".
      In that way, the judeochristian point of view is closest to the atheist's. Death is the destruction of the psyche. The difference is that Christians believe there is a way to get saved from that fate and resurrected.

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 2 роки тому +1

      @@GregTom2
      Seems some Muslims believe in reincarnation for the wicked, though.

    • @aubreymorgan9763
      @aubreymorgan9763 2 роки тому +11

      the one you've listed as Abrahamic is actualy what more Catholic and much of Christianity in general.

    • @kamrulhassan7179
      @kamrulhassan7179 2 роки тому +1

      @@austinreed7343 no they don't :|

    • @juicy3545
      @juicy3545 2 роки тому +6

      As a Christian all I can say is that you're not wrong. Most Christians would tell that you just need to ask God to forgive you sins

  • @AgrestisAnima
    @AgrestisAnima 2 роки тому +20

    "They've already lived an entire life with the person they loved, so they're used to suffering in a hell of their own creation"
    Subscribed.

  • @gwammeh
    @gwammeh 2 роки тому +255

    8:28 Wine was often the only thing that made water drinkable without dying of cholera or something. In premodern Europe, people would add beer or wine to water to decontaminate it. Selling it already diluted would make it less effective at decontaminating the water, hence being stuck in the disease hell.

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 2 роки тому +18

      Could be. People in general don't want their booze being adulterated.

    • @Terrkas0
      @Terrkas0 2 роки тому +34

      I think that is similar to why a lot of cultures have tea is a common drink. Cooking water serves the same purpose.

    • @KäptnKrückschwank
      @KäptnKrückschwank 2 роки тому +8

      Hard to believe. Adding beer or wine to water doesn’t do anything in this regard

    • @yoshiagiota5299
      @yoshiagiota5299 2 роки тому

      Alcohol kills bacteria, including the bacteria responsible for creating it

    • @Frazzilla1969
      @Frazzilla1969 2 роки тому +8

      @@KäptnKrückschwank mh you can actually find many papers on how wine lowers symptoms of cholera and so does gin.

  • @Babbleplay
    @Babbleplay 2 роки тому +365

    Wait, it went from 'if enough people commit an act, a hell will be made for it', to 'they will make you a personal hell for the unique sin you committed'. I am confused.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +145

      Perhaps it depends on how much bad karma the act generates.

    • @Terrkas0
      @Terrkas0 2 роки тому +78

      From a mystic standpoint I could see how each bad action produces a certain amount of bad energy. So it takes a bunch of lesser sins to create a hell. But if you do something really horrible and are the only one, it produces a ton of bad energy and could create your own unique hell.
      From a morally standpoint it most likely was told that way to discourage people from thinking "so if I do a crime that is so uniquely bad and horrible, it doesnt fit anywhere, I wont get punished as long as I am the only one doing it?"

    • @KäptnKrückschwank
      @KäptnKrückschwank 2 роки тому +16

      That has some Warhammer 40k vibes to it

    • @catswellthecat7855
      @catswellthecat7855 2 роки тому +9

      I would think the personal hell would be for the dude who invented murder or rape or something like that, then the cumulative ones would be for smaller sins that lots of people commit

    • @Anonymous-hx3pu
      @Anonymous-hx3pu 2 роки тому +7

      @@catswellthecat7855 imagine the personal hell for whoever came up with genocide

  • @MegaMisch
    @MegaMisch 2 роки тому +199

    Let me get this straight... the first hell is a place where if you make eye contact with someone else, you are forced to battle them? Is pokemon based on hell? Oh! Do you get to battle little demons you capture!? Can you collect badges from beating the lords of hell and face hells champion! That doesn't sound all that bad, aside from it being rehashed every few years.

    • @clashaccount8737
      @clashaccount8737 2 роки тому +24

      You gotta watch out for the 11 year olds who go around destroying criminal organizations though.

    • @10pitate
      @10pitate 2 роки тому +1

      demons there are hella strong, I'm not sure if you can call it a "battle"

    • @noobythings
      @noobythings 2 роки тому +8

      Haha funny pvp-enabled zone

  • @LittleCuteNekogirl
    @LittleCuteNekogirl 2 роки тому +69

    Imagine you're just a guy who went past a shrine with food offerings and you were really hungry so you took one piece and then you end up going to the worst of all hells with the guys who killed their parents and went through life murdering, torturing and raping people left and right for billions of years.

    • @shufflr1513
      @shufflr1513 2 роки тому +32

      "Why are you here?"
      "I murdered 400 people"
      "Why are you here?"
      "I ate some of the food offering"

    • @neardarkroad1347
      @neardarkroad1347 Рік тому +8

      sounds like JP horror in a nutshell
      "Wrong place, wrong time"

    • @steponkusceponas4085
      @steponkusceponas4085 13 годин тому

      ​@@shufflr1513 you degenerate maniac

  • @hrpang
    @hrpang 2 роки тому +30

    I like Hoozuki's Coolheadness interpretation of Buddhist Hell. Essentially, 8 Hot Hells and 8 Cold Hells have sub-hells which come with personalized punishments if the sin commited is particularly bad. While it's no 64,000, it does cover a view of the popular beliefs and writings. They also cover the idea that Hell is constantly evolving, repurposing hells that don't get anymore sinners and how certain folklore subjects work in Hell too.

  • @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759
    @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759 2 роки тому +238

    I have read Dante's Inferno and I have to say that, for me anyway, the Japanese Buddhist Hells are far worse and much more creative.
    By the way, is there a Hierarchy of Demons in Buddhist Hell like in the Judeo-Christian version?

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +73

      I haven't heard of a demon hierarchy in hell. There are some kings though. May be a good future video ;)

    • @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759
      @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759 2 роки тому +10

      @@Linfamy In the Judeo-Christian version, there is a Hierarchy.
      Lemegeton refers to it.
      Looking forward to the next video.

    • @barbieblues7639
      @barbieblues7639 2 роки тому +24

      I think they aren't worse, actually, because 1. Dante's Inferno was always fiction and by no means a spiritual work, much less a canonical one, 2. Christian hell lasts forever and is impossible to escape, with the suffering and torments increasing exponentially for all eternity (something quite unfathomable), and 3. Though the sufferings or torments are different from the Buddhist hells, many different saints, theologians etc have described various torments as well in addition to the burning/heat aspect.

    • @AureliusLaurentius1099
      @AureliusLaurentius1099 2 роки тому +29

      @@barbieblues7639
      Also it was mostly Dante's diss track against his enemies(like how Paradise is basically him simping over some girl)

    • @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759
      @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759 2 роки тому

      @@barbieblues7639 To your points, I would pose a few respectful arguments.
      1. The Divine Comedy may be fiction, but objectively speaking there is no proof whatsoever that the afterlife, God, Gods and Goddesses or anything supernatural even exists, so it may very well be that all of these verses are also fiction.
      It could be argued that the Buddhist descriptions of Hell have more of an impact because they are presented as truth, but then again it could also be argued that Dante's descriptions of Hell likely have the same impact because even if they don't refer to actual descriptions of Hell IN holy scripture they still refer to the Hell OF holy scripture, which is presented as fact and is/was a major force in not just European/Western Asian but World History.
      Anyway, I initially presented my opinion more as fact than just how these passages affected me personally, so I am at fault for being imprecise in what I meant.
      2 and 3. Overall you're right; Christian Hell is eternal and these sufferings in Buddhist Hell are not, but I was more referring to how a lot in The Inferno was comparatively tame.

  • @kimberlypatton9634
    @kimberlypatton9634 2 роки тому +54

    I absolutely adore your sense of humor and wit! You crack me up at every turn and say it so straight faced too! What a great channel! You learn something and get a smile on your face at the same time! 🤗🤗😍🥰🤣

    • @Ujuani68
      @Ujuani68 2 роки тому +3

      I laughed too! Especially at the "F***-a-doodle-do!" part!🤣🐓

  • @MagicianFairy
    @MagicianFairy 2 роки тому +27

    "Before drinking a cup of lava and screaming."
    I will now use that to describe my morning coffee.

    • @donnaquixote7538
      @donnaquixote7538 6 днів тому

      You just drink a cup of java instead of lava. 😉

  • @marafolse8347
    @marafolse8347 2 роки тому +27

    Being raised Hindu my father taught me that if you commit a bad enough deed in life you go to a temporary Hell, custom-made for you, that feels eternal, but only lasts a short time before reincarnating.

  • @gidkath
    @gidkath 2 роки тому +12

    Personally, the best part of this video is the expressions on the faces of the various oni, etcetera: they're not gleeful or joyous or relishing their fun torturing the mortals in their clutches. For them, this is just another day at the job. They're concentrating on doing well in their profession, and I think they like their work, but it's not something that causes them undue pleasure, just the normal satisfaction of a messy job done right, like working as a mechanic, or a plumber.

  • @crypto66
    @crypto66 2 роки тому +28

    Holy crap that ad segue was smoother than a freshly waxed bottom.
    Y'know, this made me think that Japanese Buddhist Hell has so much iron, it's probably where all of the country's ore reserves went.

  • @rosswebster7877
    @rosswebster7877 2 роки тому +21

    Another great Japanese Buddhist lore video as always Linfamy! I was hoping you’d do this one after watching the 1960s Japanese classic horror movie, Jigoku.

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 2 роки тому +15

    “There are eight Buddhist hells, and we’re going to decide which one you’re going to”
    By my estimates, *all of them.*

  • @speedslider3913
    @speedslider3913 2 роки тому +75

    The idea of personal hells being shared and new hells being born of shared sin is pretty sweet, but these, like many hell concepts, fall into the issues of "sin is personal bias (I.e. the poop soup hell is for people who do what we call hunting nowadays, which isn′t considered that heinous under most circumstances)" and "sin lacks complexity (if I kill someone in self-defense or on accident, does that count as the same sin as sadistic murder?)" Still, for what it′s worth, there are still some great hell ideas here that would suck quite tremendously!

    • @nidohime6233
      @nidohime6233 2 роки тому +13

      That's because Hell in general was meant to scare illiterate people back then.

    • @10pitate
      @10pitate 2 роки тому

      @@nidohime6233 what's because of that?

  • @whatalsaid
    @whatalsaid 2 роки тому +80

    The thing that freaks me out about ANY afterlife, heaven or hell, is that you're basically still alive, but just in another dimension or something. Which might be fine at first, if you end up going to heaven, but then years pass by, and years become centuries, and centuries becomes a millenniums and you're STILL existing. Eventually the psychological strains of basically being immortal takes it's toll on you, and you go insane, and all you have to look forward to is hoping that Azathoth wakes up and ends all reality, freeing you of your mental prison as you slip away into the inky blackness of nonexistence.

    • @birb2330
      @birb2330 2 роки тому +11

      In Heaven you can't go crazy , you are always healthy there, mentally, always happy, every need is fulfilled there ,there is no boredom, no suffering, There are no negative effects of Heaven . Hell is the opposite , There are no positives in Hell there's nothing good there . And Azathoth , Someday he will swear you again and you will suffer again.

    • @JimmyPizzaDelivery
      @JimmyPizzaDelivery 2 роки тому +2

      @@birb2330 Oh boy, it also depends on the iteration of Heaven and Hell you are talking about too.
      Because, there are thousands of different ones.

    • @birb2330
      @birb2330 2 роки тому +1

      @@JimmyPizzaDelivery I know , I am talking about an original idea probably derived from Sumerian beliefs, and now repeated by the Bible, other visions of Hell and Heaven are the destiny of these versions.

    • @yanwestsid3
      @yanwestsid3 2 роки тому +1

      You are starting to get the basic concepts of Buddism and its essence by pure intuition. Yes, Buddhists strive for enlightenment to attain Nirvana, which is to escape cycle of life, rebirth and reincarnation once and for all. So that you escape repeated suffering of living and dying again and again. Buddhism believes there are many gods in existence, it doesnt deny them but it teaches even gods can be fall a victim to impermance, delusion and suffering. You might not achieve Nirvana in one lifetime but good deeds you did in your many previous lifetime are accumulated towards it. Even Buddha himself had to live a thousand lives (good and bad) to finally reach enlightenment. But only with good deeds you cant reach it, only through your own experiments, practices and mediation that you have a chance to attain it. Well known knowledge like eight-fold paths, knowing that to live is to suffer, separating yourself from worldly attachments and resisting temptations is a good start. And remember, whatever the vile or evil deeds you commited, it has left stained on you through next life until you are paid. You cant wash it off, cleanse it nor apologize it. Sure, you can try to do good deeds but it acts as only to balance the proportion because you will eventually suffer from what you did doesnt matter its a little bad things or big bad things, thats the equilibrium of it. What you give is what you will get. Its a given that your karma will inevitably come back to you in this life or another.

    • @Haha-bu7bi
      @Haha-bu7bi 2 роки тому

      So emo 😢

  • @annabanton5442
    @annabanton5442 2 роки тому +8

    “ the first subhell is for people who kill deer”
    People from the Midwest: haha I’m in danger

  • @gregsvoice5628
    @gregsvoice5628 2 роки тому +75

    It is a bit worrying how much time Buddhist monks spent thinking and fantasising about such violent places. Also is it possible to be reincarnated as a demon or any of the others beings that caused suffering in the hells?

    • @TeaSerpent
      @TeaSerpent 2 роки тому +21

      That's kind of a hard question to answer and honestly I don't know enough about the whole scope of Buddhism to answer that in a comprehensive manner.
      But the short answer is in that at least in some sects of Buddhism, yeah it is.
      Also given the most common core ideas in Buddhism I would imagine that most if not all Buddhist sects would say that it is. But it's likely that some of them just don't address the question directly.
      I can say that at least in many Chinese and other East Asian sects many of the beasts and demons in hell were reincarnated there.
      Usually it's seen as a reward more than a punishment. Well maybe more of a consolation prize than a reward?
      Usually they are good innocent people or animals who died from some type of horrible murder or abuse. Then the judges of the dead take pity on them and give them immortal bodies (or as immortal as you get in Buddhism without becoming a Buddha, since even gods are still in the wheel of reincarnation) and then let them work as part of the heavenly bureaucracy as a grunt worker in one of the hell divisions.
      So like you were a good faithful vegetarian dog who got beaten to death for no reason. So the hell judge hires you to spend a few trillion eternities mauling animal abusers.

    • @gregsvoice5628
      @gregsvoice5628 2 роки тому

      @@TeaSerpent Thanks for this, that does make (some sort of) sense!

    • @TeaSerpent
      @TeaSerpent 2 роки тому +2

      @@gregsvoice5628 But I should also point out that if you lived and died horribly from abuse or murder and passed on full of anger or hated or feelings of wanting revenge that you would instead probably be reborn in the animal, preta, or even hell realms.
      Or at least that would be a more classical Buddhist take on it.
      But you should also keep in mind that Buddhism both influenced and was heavily influenced by folk beliefs in various areas and what little I know comes more from East Asian forms of Buddhism and especially folk religious beliefs related to Buddhism.
      When you start talking about specific later period Japanese ideas of the Buddhist hells you are already talking about something that has been heavily influenced by Chinese folk religion and further by local Japanese folk religious beliefs.
      Given the heavy Daoist influence in Chinese folk religion which also influenced East Asian Buddhist schools it's also possible some of the East Asian Buddhist sects had hell demons who were full of anger and resentment.
      Daoism is full of all kinds of spirits, gods, ghosts, etc. who died horrible deaths while full of anger or negative thoughts and feelings.
      One of the big things the celestial bureaucracy and Daoist priests do is to subdue these ghosts and demons and put them to work for the good of heaven.
      So if an invading army gets completely massacred and the ghosts of their dead soldiers start attacking local people and doing things like causing plagues and famines, then you have a Daoist do rituals to call down local gods and the heavenly army to subdue them.
      Once subdued they get incorporated into one of the divisions of the heavenly army and help to subdue other wild or angry ghosts or demons. In that way their wild and angry energy is harnessed and used for the common good. Also by becoming part of the heavenly troops they are brought into line with the dao and their spirits are purified and cleansed.
      Of course you can't subdue every ghost and demon like that. Sometimes the priest or the gods involved are not strong enough or the demon or ghost is just too strong or wild. So there are other ways to either destroy or imprison them.
      But given the choice it's seen as better for everyone (including the ghost or demon) to subdue them and make them work for the heavens.
      Obviously this is Daoism and Buddhism is different. But similar ideas exist in some Buddhist sects with various angry deities.
      Also as mentioned, while many of these ideas of hells originated in Buddhism they became part of local folk religion. So the various hells and hell judges are part of Chinese folk religion and part of the heavenly bureaucracy along with various Daoist gods, heavenly armies, and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
      The changes in the way these things were viewed by the general population regularly made it back into local Buddhist sects.
      So the short answer is yes people can reincarnate into one of the various guards in hell or one of the heavenly functionaries. They can also reincarnate into gods or demons.
      At least according to most schools of Buddhism as well as Daoism and East Asian folk religions. (although in terms of Daoism or folk religion it's debatable whether this should be called reincarnation as it's often viewed very differently than in Buddhism.)
      But the who, what, when, where, and why details of this will differ by period, location, sect, etc.

    • @anobody5313
      @anobody5313 2 роки тому

      Yes but I don't know.For me you can as the whole concept of reincarnation is you can reincarnate into anything in the 31 realms based on your good karma and bad karma.

    • @yuumizedong2574
      @yuumizedong2574 Рік тому

      Please tell me naraka isnt real

  • @OrisR
    @OrisR 2 роки тому +95

    Hey Linfamy, now that you've talked about the 8 Buddhist hells would You mind Talking about the Yōmi no kuni, the Shintō hell

    • @Arviragus13
      @Arviragus13 2 роки тому +4

      Yomi was never really a 'hell' as such. Historically it was a sort of neutral afterlife location, and in modern Shinto it's only really thought of as the place that Izanami-no-mikoto resides, with Shinto not having a specific take on the afterlife as the afterlife in Japan has long been the realm of Buddhism

    • @OrisR
      @OrisR 2 роки тому +2

      @@Arviragus13 Ohhh thank you for the aclaration 😊

  • @brujo_millonario
    @brujo_millonario 2 роки тому +21

    I always wondered how could someone hurt a Buddha, since they're invulnerable. Even before reaching enlightenment, the Buddha was supposed to transform Mara's arrows into flowers before they reached him. Buddhism should teach that you end up in a Hell only if deep inside you want to suffer because you feel guilty. Oh but that's not convenient for the governing Elite to make you meek.

  • @ToniiLuxx
    @ToniiLuxx 2 роки тому +34

    Another great video! It was a lot of fun to learn more about hell, especially since one of my favorite anime is about this hell presented in the video. Hozuki's Coolheadness (Hozuki No Reitetsu) is an awesome comedy anime about hell and its system. I hope you make more videos about this topic!

    • @Limacinablues
      @Limacinablues 2 роки тому

      Ohh! Another Hozuki fan!
      Which character is your favorite btw

    • @ToniiLuxx
      @ToniiLuxx 2 роки тому +1

      @@Limacinablues I like every character but I like Hozuki the most. And yours?

    • @Limacinablues
      @Limacinablues 2 роки тому

      @@ToniiLuxx it’s hard to choose but i like Karashi the most. Also Ichiko and Niko. And the inchling samurai

    • @ToniiLuxx
      @ToniiLuxx 2 роки тому

      @@Limacinablues I can only agree, Karashi is so awesome

    • @Limacinablues
      @Limacinablues 2 роки тому

      @@ToniiLuxx do you have other social media account so we can talk together I guess

  • @comb528491
    @comb528491 2 роки тому +108

    So, we know that the Mauryan Empire played a heavy role in the spread of Buddhism (and thus perhaps the development as well), and that the Mauryans were influenced by the Achaemenid Empire, who belonged to the Zoroastrian Faith
    Does that mean that Buddhist Concepts of Hell were perhaps influenced by Zoroastrianism?

    • @nathanwhite704
      @nathanwhite704 2 роки тому +20

      Most likely, since thats the origin of it in every other religion from that region.

    • @barbieblues7639
      @barbieblues7639 2 роки тому +7

      Good question. It's unlikely that anyone watching this will be able to answer. I'd seek out a scholar of Buddhism tbh.

    • @jamieyoung9206
      @jamieyoung9206 2 роки тому +15

      It derives from Hindu traditions

    • @jamieyoung9206
      @jamieyoung9206 2 роки тому +16

      Zoroastrianism could’ve been influenced by Hinduism.

    • @jamieyoung9206
      @jamieyoung9206 2 роки тому +14

      But i think zoroastrianism was more so influenced by Mesopotamian religions than Hinduism. Look up Mesopotamian/Sumerian and Assyrian mythology there’s a lot of similarities with their gods and Zoroastrianism

  • @yven803
    @yven803 2 роки тому +15

    Well thank you for telling me what type of torture awaits me. I fell soooooo much better.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +3

      Good luck 👍

  • @eee1925
    @eee1925 2 роки тому +33

    3:13 "All 8 hells lie BENEATH the EARTH, each one is a cube about 10,000 miles on each side, the lowest one is about 100,000 miles on each side"
    *Googles how deep Earth is
    *Does some math
    *Confused Screaming
    4:59 There is an iron wall and fire is burning there
    If super hot fire is burning iron then the iron would not "burn" it would "MELT" so the walls would be tumbling... down?
    *Confused Scream #2

    • @user-Void-Star
      @user-Void-Star 2 роки тому +8

      Actually, these are just metaphors for people to do good.

    • @Deutsche_Scientist
      @Deutsche_Scientist 2 роки тому +2

      It's probably not iron but rather a rare type of metal that looks like iron the only exits in that realm that can withstand it's flame,Plus how can a person tell the difference between iron and other type of metal?

  • @borgulshant5463
    @borgulshant5463 2 роки тому +3

    I NEED to take the time to highlight how most YT videos start with so much fluff and intro BS for whatever reason, how unappealing it's all always been to me. How being asked to like, comment, and subscribe has the adverse effect on my likelyhood to do so. And then this channel, the first 5 seconds i'm fully plunged into exactly what the title says, no BS. This channel is a gem for many reasons and this is among those reasons.

  • @rdsyafriyar
    @rdsyafriyar 2 роки тому +15

    To put into perspective, trying to endure and survive in the Reviving Hell is like spending a good portion of a red dwarf star's lifespan. Considering they were the longest lasting fuel burning stellar objects in the observable universe, it takes about 10 lifespans of being in that underworld to pass the entire life of one.

  • @SaveFierySoulBrothers6743
    @SaveFierySoulBrothers6743 2 роки тому +40

    It’s scary but interesting,keep making those amazing videos about Japanese folklore

    • @SMGSeven
      @SMGSeven 2 роки тому +1

      Omg 4:04 K oopa is alive forever

  • @Kingbackyardigan23
    @Kingbackyardigan23 2 роки тому +49

    I'm still stuck on the fact that there's a hell for everyone who cooks and eats animals
    Vegans: Hooray!!

    • @uikaiokenuikaioken4837
      @uikaiokenuikaioken4837 2 роки тому +1

      One word
      “fish”

    • @jessym6161
      @jessym6161 2 роки тому +3

      Why do they have to make the animals so delicious?
      Makes it so hard to avoid this sin. Murder? Nah. Butter Chicken? I WILL BE GOING TO HELL. 🤦‍♀️

    • @flourella4538
      @flourella4538 2 роки тому +9

      Well, that's the very reason why the Japanese haven't eaten animals for 1500 years. And of course fish and whales are not animals because we didn't have Darwin.

    • @ooferrell
      @ooferrell 2 роки тому +1

      Plants are living things too so there's a h*** for Vegans.. It's called the h*** of hypocrisy

    • @thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463
      @thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 2 роки тому +2

      @@flourella4538 KFC would argue with you on that

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 2 роки тому +9

    Hell:
    The toilets are blocked, the traffic lights are broken, the only fast food place in reach is Blue Cheese Palace, and all that's on TV is C-Span.

  • @TheQueenOfStupidity
    @TheQueenOfStupidity 2 роки тому +2

    Haha I didnt expect a boomer joke to introduce the sponsor 😂🙈 that took me so off guard after the funny intro, I thought I was missing something obvious being said. But no just good old marriage is hell jokes :p intro was bomb though 👍

  • @invokingvajras
    @invokingvajras 2 роки тому +6

    "Going to the Three Jewels for refuge is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it enables one to transcend the three lower realms." - Lalitavistara 🙏

  • @isaacofthales4303
    @isaacofthales4303 2 роки тому +33

    I wonder if Dante Alighieri read Budhist Dameonology when writing the Inferno

    • @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759
      @bigfoottroisiemepartielave1759 2 роки тому +17

      If he did, he toned it way the hell down.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому +2

      Maybe he was influenced.

    • @barbieblues7639
      @barbieblues7639 2 роки тому +2

      Considering the time period he lived in...no.

    • @riccardogusso
      @riccardogusso 2 роки тому +8

      Dante's divine Comedy Is based on the concept of the World of the time, the "Aristotelic Cosmology" Who Was predominant during the Middle Age.

    • @ludonymous526
      @ludonymous526 9 місяців тому

      Either way, no words can describe how horrifying the Buddhist Hell is compared to the Christian Hell.

  • @madambutterfly1997
    @madambutterfly1997 2 роки тому +27

    If I had the passive ability to create whole world and dimensions from my own karma, I’d have a whole multiverse by now

  • @sunixjester
    @sunixjester 2 роки тому +13

    3:57 ouch that hurt. A hell on earth that exists within the heart.

  • @SomeGuyOnTheInternet5
    @SomeGuyOnTheInternet5 9 місяців тому +3

    Imagine that you die after killing your father/mother by the most imaginative way you could possibly think up, and Buddha just says something along the lines of
    “Oh dear, yeah you don’t belong with the other guys. You’re going..”
    He just creates a new realm, built specifically for your torment.
    “..here.”

    • @brightam
      @brightam 6 місяців тому

      Dam that’s wild 💀

  • @ArtTasticCreations
    @ArtTasticCreations 2 роки тому +2

    Finally a video that accurately describes what you experience at waiting in line at the DMV.

  • @naturalcambion3747
    @naturalcambion3747 2 роки тому +18

    “I’ll have you dragged off to the hell where people are skinned alive”!
    -Lo Pan

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas 2 роки тому +4

      "Chinese People have a lot of Hells"
      -Wang Chi

  • @niamhmn4
    @niamhmn4 2 роки тому +4

    Amazing commentary, especially love the drawings in this vid, *killer* work Linfamy, as always 🤠

  • @josephkim689
    @josephkim689 2 роки тому +16

    You forgot the 9th level of hell, Brazil.

  • @angelix4409
    @angelix4409 2 роки тому +10

    8:16 we do a little bit of trolling

  • @sthn8758
    @sthn8758 2 роки тому +10

    2:40 Reviving Hell (Tōkatsu Jigoku) or (Sañjīva) or (သိဉ္ဇိုဝ်း)
    This hell in Indian and Burmese Buddhism is said to have ground made of hot iron heated by an immense fire.Already in a state of fear,the sinners attack each other with iron claws.Sinners who didn’t were attacked by hell guards(they are said to not be demons but are angelic ogres who were station here by Yama).As soon as the sinners experienced an unconsciousness like death,they are revived again and the attacks begin again.
    Life in this hell is said to be 162,000,000,000 years
    4:40 The Black Cord Hell (Kokujō Jigoku) or (Kālasūtra) or (ကာလသုတ္တ)
    Including the torments of the earlier hell, black lines are drawn upon the body,which hell guards use as guides to cut the being with saws,machetes and axes.
    Life in this hell is said to be 1,296,000,000,000 years long
    5:27 The Crushing Hell (Shugō Jigoku) or (Samghāta) or (သင်္ဃာတ)
    Life in this hell is said to be 10,368,000,000,000 years long
    6:40 The Screaming Hell (Gōkyō Jigoku) or (Raurava) or (ရောရုဝ)
    Life in this hell is said to be 82,944,000,000,000 years long
    7:16 The Great Screaming Hell (Daikyō Jigoku) or (Mahāraurava) or (မဟာရောရုဝ)
    Life in this hell is said to be 663,552,000,000,000 years long
    7:43 The Burning Hell (Ennetsu Jigoku) or (Tapana) or (တာပန)
    Life in this hell is said to be 5,308,416,000,000,000 years long.Equivalent to a quarter of antarakalpa or အနန္တရကပ်
    8:24 The Great Burning Hell (Dainetsu Jigoku) or (Pratāpana) or (မဟာတာပန)
    Life in this hell is said to be 42,467,328,000,000,000 years long
    9:03 The Uninterrupted Hell of unending suffering (Mugen Jigoku) or (Avīci) or (အဝီစိ)
    Life in hell is said to be 339,738,624,000,000,000 years long

  • @melaber77
    @melaber77 2 роки тому +5

    I love your humor and delivery, and would seriously watch any channel you worked on. Hint hint.

  • @Mimi-San721
    @Mimi-San721 2 роки тому +26

    Is it weird that I find hell and sins in religions really interesting?

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +10

      Who doesn't 🤷‍♂️

    • @latel4544
      @latel4544 2 роки тому +7

      Not at all, while heavens can have weird or creative ideas they are typically standard (valhala being one of the exceptions) and are filled with "good" spirits which are either holy, or nature spirits
      Hell on the other hand can be more unhinged, it's from the mind of its creator, what they view as sins is incorporated into that hell and usually makes it unique. Or is filled with unique beasts based on a concept, sin or just naturally lives there. Hell doesn't even need to have suffering and can just be where the dead reside or a wholely different world entirely

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому +1

      Hell is basically fanfic whatever you imagine, even dantes, he had peoplr and poes he hated there.
      Only norse have a good hel, she is just protecting souls in a cave.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому

      No weird mythology is amazing

    • @palesa8777
      @palesa8777 2 роки тому

      @@marocat4749 is it considere mythology although it a practiced religion

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 2 роки тому +66

    Thank the Kami that Linfamy has posted right when the world is poised on the brink of disaster! I'm sure the Buddhist Hells don't have a Chernobyl-yet. They're safer than the real world atm. I wonder if Hozuki and I could work out an exchange deal.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +33

      I know one world leader who's going to hell...

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому +12

      @@Linfamy can think of several

    • @alyssajakielek687
      @alyssajakielek687 2 роки тому +7

      So I'm not the only one who immediately thought of hozuki lol

    • @Yendor1224
      @Yendor1224 2 роки тому +3

      @@Linfamy I wonder if he gets his own hell?

    • @Ikajo
      @Ikajo 2 роки тому +2

      I understood that reference

  • @mattBLACKpunk
    @mattBLACKpunk 2 роки тому +10

    So reviving hell is kind of like a dark souls game, including getting back up after death and poison swamps?

  • @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874
    @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 2 роки тому +8

    "There is a sub-Hell for those who sold watered-down wine."
    The ancient Greeks, who drank watered-down wine as a cultural habit: [surprised Pikachu]

  • @卑弥呼-f9b
    @卑弥呼-f9b 2 роки тому +20

    So if you go to hell for hurting children, were chigo and their relationships with monks an exception?

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +10

      They didn't consider chigo relationships hurting children.

    • @gamingdragon1356
      @gamingdragon1356 2 роки тому +2

      @@Linfamy unlike, in Abrahmic faiths anyone who does bad deeds get sent to hell. There is no exception no matter your position.

    • @AdwinLauYuTan
      @AdwinLauYuTan 2 роки тому +1

      @@gamingdragon1356 It’s perspective really. What is considered a bad deed changes.

    • @gamingdragon1356
      @gamingdragon1356 2 роки тому

      @@AdwinLauYuTan Well everything is perspective even our law works on perspective so cosmic law should work on some perspective as well.

    • @AdwinLauYuTan
      @AdwinLauYuTan 2 роки тому

      @@gamingdragon1356 Exactly.

  • @theMadCEHMist
    @theMadCEHMist 2 роки тому +15

    Now I really want a Soulsborne or roguelite game where you try to survive the different layers of Buddhist hell to redeem yourself and get reincarnated.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому +1

      There is the dante inferno game, but that would make for a great game.

    • @theMadCEHMist
      @theMadCEHMist 2 роки тому +1

      @@marocat4749 I adore Dante’s Inferno so maybe that’s why I like the idea so much. 😂

    • @seiikei
      @seiikei 9 місяців тому

      Theres already a movie for that (i think it counts aw buddhist hell????)

  • @100mythfreak
    @100mythfreak 2 роки тому +39

    For further information on Japanese Hell, watch Hoozuki's Coolheadedness. Also, I have a feeling Linfamy only made this video for the pun at the end.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +5

      👀

    • @Belgand
      @Belgand 2 роки тому +1

      That anime taught me about the Softbank dog.
      And people think they need to localize away references in media. How else am I supposed to head down an amusing and adorable hours-long rabbit hole just to understand a brief gag in a show that already requires I know about another folk tale just to get the setup?

  • @stefanstoyanov2126
    @stefanstoyanov2126 2 роки тому +5

    "...you fall further than the British empire" made my day!!!

  • @DavidCruickshank
    @DavidCruickshank 2 роки тому +7

    "You fall further than the British empire" So true lol 🤣

  • @raphaelcarvalhobezerra6913
    @raphaelcarvalhobezerra6913 2 роки тому +8

    Meanwhile O-Jizo Sama: im about to end this Realm's whole career

  • @inezkestens5561
    @inezkestens5561 2 роки тому +19

    haha, this is why i love the anime and manga "Hozuki's Coolheadedness" or "Hōzuki no Reitetsu". It was such a weird show but I found all the lighthearted gruesomeness so endearing :p

    • @hbanana7
      @hbanana7 2 роки тому

      I was scrolling through expecting many comments about Hoozuki no Reitetsu. I love that series!! It's so informative and funny. The upbeat opening is the best!

  • @Mori-Chan613
    @Mori-Chan613 2 роки тому +5

    That was the smoothest transition to cue in the sponsor 😏

  • @lavenderpop3518
    @lavenderpop3518 2 роки тому +3

    "i won't leave you okay? I'm not your dad" in the most casual voice possible, the moment that convinced me to like this video

  • @fireblaze6837
    @fireblaze6837 2 роки тому +6

    I wonder if the hell for people who water down wine was due to the fact that wine was often much safer to drink than water before our modern understanding of bacteria, so people who watered down wine risked getting others sick, often times a death sentence back then, hence the “404 diseases” as punishment.

  • @idraote
    @idraote 2 роки тому +27

    There is a poetic truth in the idea that people can create their own personal hells... because we tend to do exactly that.

  • @AncientShotgun
    @AncientShotgun 2 роки тому +20

    Cold Buddhist Narakas are metal too; the one I find the most morbidly fascinating is the eighth, the Great Lotus Naraka. Sinners are flogged by winds so cold that their skin freezes, cracks open and exposes their internal organs. Those are then also frozen, and so on and so forth until the sinner is reduced to a shambling, constantly regenerating pile of frozen guts and skin until they work off their bad karma. Brutal stuff.

  • @Talsbynians
    @Talsbynians 2 роки тому +4

    each of new hell is more creative than the last, impressive

  • @nicolasmaldonado1428
    @nicolasmaldonado1428 2 роки тому +5

    I was learning to drive and I stumped on a turtle crushing it, I didn't know there's literally a special kind of hell for me.

  • @pantslizard
    @pantslizard Рік тому +4

    After having watched a few of these, this dude is carrying around lot of childhood issues😳

  • @MistarZtv
    @MistarZtv 2 роки тому +7

    They really made a hell specifically for wine dilluters 😭

  • @raistlin3462
    @raistlin3462 2 роки тому +5

    The many hells invented by humanity say a lot regarding our trend for disproportionate retributions, and the idea even reformation requires torture.

  • @AngelicHalfblood
    @AngelicHalfblood 2 роки тому +6

    I like that the idea of "You made this hell for yourself" or in this case others who did the same thing

  • @elcidgaming
    @elcidgaming 2 роки тому +3

    So stoked when you mentioned there is a hell for selling diluted wine lol

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +3

      The worst sin

  • @Nearly_Impossible
    @Nearly_Impossible Рік тому +4

    I was raised with the Sri Lankan flavour of Buddhism and many of these hells share the same features as the ones I was told about. In Sri Lanka, temples often have rooms with plaster or wax recreations of the hells and I very vividly remember being taken to one as an 8 year olf and seeing a massive plaster recreation of the spiked tree. We didn't have lusty people on top of the tree, rather fires would chase you up and down it for eternity. They sound over the top and ridiculous now, but boy was I scared.

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  Рік тому +2

      Yeah must be terrifying to children :p

  • @marvinwoods4556
    @marvinwoods4556 2 роки тому +6

    Linfamy's on fire! (Pun intended)

  • @Geospasmic
    @Geospasmic 2 роки тому +3

    I've been through a lot of Arizona summers without AC, I think I'm ready for the Hell of the Skillet.

  • @thetowerstillstands
    @thetowerstillstands 2 роки тому +6

    _"Iron fangs?"_
    Who committed _that_ little act of animal abuse?

  • @MaladaptiveDaydreamerr
    @MaladaptiveDaydreamerr 2 місяці тому +1

    In a timeline directly to the left of ours, Dante’s experience in hell is this.

    • @wormwoodcocktail
      @wormwoodcocktail Місяць тому

      There are similarities. The raining excrement realm, for instance.

  • @Packguardian_gacha8684
    @Packguardian_gacha8684 Рік тому +1

    I like how in some of the paintings, the sinners have the face of people who lost a game but is still having fun.

  • @edi9892
    @edi9892 2 роки тому +13

    What's the appropriate hell for people who dream up new hells for their enemies?

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 роки тому +8

      To experience any hell they make up i imagine.

    • @AdwinLauYuTan
      @AdwinLauYuTan 2 роки тому +1

      Demons that look like their enemies force them to go through every single hell that exists.

  • @tymcglone7335
    @tymcglone7335 2 роки тому +8

    I have a question. Do you ascend upwards through the different layers of hell as your bad karma balances out or do you just deal with the same unending torment until all of your bad karma balances out?

    • @Funny_ish
      @Funny_ish 2 роки тому +2

      From what I understand, you are put into hell depending on the sins you've committed, so I think you deal with the same punishment for the needed amount of time.

  • @shalinitiwariscorner5210
    @shalinitiwariscorner5210 2 роки тому +8

    Well, the concept of multiple hells and heavens exist in almost every Dharmic religion.
    I Hinduism, there are 28 hells in which 16 are major hells.
    The difference between major and minor hells is that you will get released from a minor hell after a definite period of time and you will be given a new lifetime for a new beginning.
    But if you are in a major hell, then unless the person you have harmed forgives you and attains Moksha, you will be continuously punished there.
    In Hinduism and other Dharmic religion, it is believed that God will never consider you as a sinner until you harm his/her creation in any way or form.

    • @randomplebian461
      @randomplebian461 2 роки тому +2

      Naraka (Hell) is a Puranic concept. I haven't seen any mention of Naraka in the main Vedas, these generally seem to convey that hell and heaven exist as states of our consciousness itself.

    • @miguelatkinson
      @miguelatkinson Рік тому

      @shalinitiwariscorner5210 sikhism doesn't have a hell or heaven and Buddhism or jainism do not have a creator god or Supreme being at the head of them but you are right to say that they have the concept of multiple hells and heavens

  • @capuchinosofia4771
    @capuchinosofia4771 2 роки тому +7

    9:38 *"Woefully* killing your mother/father".... does that mean that if one were to do it happily, then they wouldnt go to that hell? Lol

    • @Linfamy
      @Linfamy  2 роки тому +3

      Die mom and dad! 😚