Editing Naraka (section)

==Buddhism==
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[[File:Buddhist-hell-Thailand-3.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A mural from a temple in northern Thailand. The unclothed spirits of the dead are brought before [[Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology)|Yama]] for judgement. In the background, Mālaya (พระมาลัย) watches from above as sinners are fried in a large oil cauldron.]]

In Buddhism, Naraka refers to the worlds of greatest suffering. [[Buddhist texts]] describe a vast array of tortures and realms of torment in Naraka; an example is the ''Devadūta-sutta'' from the [[Pāli Canon]]. The descriptions vary from text to text and are not always consistent with each other. Though the term is often translated as "hell", unlike the Abrahamic hells, Naraka is not eternal, though when a timescale is given, it is suggested to be extraordinarily long. There is not inherently any [[God]] required to be involved in determining a being's entry and exit to and from the realm. Rather, the mind ends up here—as is the case with all the other realms in the [[Buddhist cosmology]]—by natural law: the law of [[Karma (Buddhism)|karma]], and they remain until the negative karma that brought them there has been used up.