Hungry Ghosts

kha 'bar de ba - Jvala-Mukha Deva, Flaming Mouth, sage of the hungry ghosts. The buddha of the hungry ghosts [RY]

kha 'bar de ba - jvala-mukha deva, flaming mouth the buddha of the hungry ghosts) [IW]

kha 'bar ma - Flaming Mouth, the queen of the hungry ghosts [RY]

kha 'bar ma - flaming mouth (the queen of the hungry ghosts) [IW]

mkha' la rgyu ba'i yi dvags - 'hungry ghosts living in the air' [RY]

'gro ba ngan pa - the bad/ lower realms animals, hungry ghosts, hell beings.] [IW]

'gro ba ngan pa - the bad/ lower realms animals, hungry ghosts, hell beings.] [RY]

'gro ba drug - six kinds of beings of the six lokas];

1){lha} = gods;

2) {mi} = men;

3) {lha ma yin} = titans, jealous gods

4) {dud 'gro} = animals

5) {yi dvags} = hungry ghosts

6) {sems can dmyal ba} = hell beings {bde 'gro gsum} and {ngan 'gro gsum} [IW]

[['gro ba drug - six kinds of beings of the six lokas;

1) {lha} = gods;

2) {mi} = men; 3)

{lha ma yin} = titans, jealous gods

4) {dud 'gro} = animals

5) {yi dvags} = hungry ghosts

6) {sems can dmyal ba} = hell beings {bde 'gro gsum} and {ngan 'gro gsum} [IW]

'gro ba drug - six kinds of beings, transmigrators [of the 6 lokas]: 1) {lha} gods. 2) {mi} men. 3) {lha ma yin} titans, jealous gods. 4) {dud 'gro} animals. 5) {yi dvags} hungry ghosts. 6) {sems can dmyal ba} hell beings. Def. {bde 'gro gsum} and {ngan 'gro gsum}. beings {bde 'gro gsum} and {ngan 'gro gsum} [RY]

'gro ba rigs drug - six classes of beings. Gods, demigods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings. {lha, lha ma yin, mi, dud 'gro, yi dvags, dmyal ba} [RY]

'gro ba rigs bsdus pa - {dmyal ba yi dvags dud 'gro ste ngan song gsum dang, mi dang lha min lha ste mtho ris gsum dang bsdom pas rigs drug go} Sentient beings can be included within the following six classes: the three lower states of hell beings, hungry ghosts, and animals added together with the three higher states of human beings, demigods, and gods. [RY]

ngan song - Lower realms. The three abodes of hell beings, hungry ghosts and animals [RY]

ngan song gsum - Three lower realms. The worlds of hell beings, hungry ghosts, and animals [RY]

chu sbyin - water offering (to hungry ghosts [IW]

chu sbyin - water offering [to hungry ghosts] [RY]

chu sbyin gyi cho ga - water offering (to hungry ghosts [IW]

mtho ris gsum - Three higher realms. The worlds of human beings, demigods or asuras, and gods or devas. These realms are more pleasant than the lower realms of animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings, but are not places of lasting happiness since even the highest realms of the gods are still within samsara [RY]

'dod khams - realms of desire. Comprised of the abodes of hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, asuras, and the gods of the six abodes of Desire gods.

It is called 'desire realm' because the beings there are tormented by the mental pain of desire and attachment to material substance [RY]

'dod pa'i khams - the desire realms; Mipham def: {mnar med nas gzhan 'phrul dbang byed kyi bar te, 'dod lha drug mi bcu gnyis, dmyal ba bcu drug, dud 'gro dang, yi dvags bcas gnas ris so drug gam, lha min logs su phye na so bdun du yang 'gyur ro}

The desire realms consist of 36 abodes from the Incessant Hell up to Mastery Over Others' Creations: the six abodes of desire gods, the 12 abodes of human beings, the abodes of animals and of hungry ghosts, and the 16 hells. When demigods are classified separately, there are 37. [RY]

mi ma yin - nonhuman, a being belonging to hungry ghosts, spiritual being, spirit, ghost [RY]

yi dvags kyi thub pa kha 'bar ma - Jvalamukha, Flaming Mouth, the sage of the hungry ghosts [RY]

yi dwags kyi thub pa kha 'bar ma - Jvalamukha/ flaming mouth, sage of the hungry ghosts [IW]

yi dwags kyi gnas - the realm of the hungry ghosts [IW]

yi dvags kyi gnas - the realm of the hungry ghosts [RY]

yi dvags kyi yul - the place of the hungry ghosts. realm of the hungry ghosts [RY]

yi dwags kyi yul - the realm of the hungry ghosts [IW]

yi dvags la bkres skoms - hungry ghosts suffer hunger and thirst [RY]

rigs drug gi gnas - Six realms. The worlds of gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings [RY]

gsur - burnt offerings. Smoke is produced by burning flour mixed with pure food and sacred substances. This smoke, offered during a meditation on Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, can nourish the bardo consciousness as well as hungry ghosts [RY]