A Guideline on the Explanation of Hell and Heaven in Buddhism for New Generation

Abstract

This thesis is of 3 objectives, namely:- (1) to study the explanation of the hell and the heaven in the Buddhist Scriptures. (2) to study the explanation of the hell and the heaven Thai societies, and (3) to propose the way of explanation of the hell and the heaven for the new generation.
From the research, It is found that:- In the Theravada Buddhist Scriptures, there is the explanation in hell and heaven. Morn over, there is the explanation of the relationship between the States, the hell and beasts and the deities. In the matter of the State, the Buddha said about the characteristics of the different states. The Buddha said about hell and heaven in many forms. Niraya means the state in which it is believed that the evil doer must be born in hell and will be punished. It is a land full of all the sufferings. The big hell is of 8 realms called Mahanaraka. The characteristics of the hell beasts are as follows:- those who do bodily verbally and mentally bad actions who the one who do not observe the five precepts. This, they received the suffering in hell. On the contrary, Heaven means the state where the deities live. It is the of 6 realms full of only the happiness and of the deity property There who will be born in heaven must be those who do good actions.