Of course, there is the concept of hell according to Buddhism. However, it is not like ‘hell’ as taught in other religion; it is not something created by God but it is created by human unwholesome thoughts, speeches and actions. The concept of hell taught by the Buddha has nothing to do even with Buddhism because it is created by unwholesome thoughts, speeches and actions of human being including Buddhist or non-Buddhist.
According to the Buddha’s Teaching, the concept of hell will exist for those who are used to doing unwholesome thoughts, speeches and actions but it will be shut down by those who are used to doing wholesome thoughts, speeches and actions. Therefore, in the concept of hell according to the Buddha’s Teaching, there is nothing to do with God or Buddha, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, believer or non-believer, savior or non-savior and theist or atheist.
The concept of hell in Buddhism is very closely connected with those who are used to doing unwholesome deeds as I explained above and it is not created by God but by one’s won unwholesome deeds known as ‘Akusalakamma’ in Buddhism. It is a good explanation on the concept of hell by the Buddha to remind those who are used to doing such unwholesome deeds not to continue and to inspire those who are used to doing wholesome deeds by thoughts, speeches and actions on the other hand.
The Buddha didn’t frighten people by saying ‘You will be punished or you will be rewarded’ but it is your choice. You can imagine how the Buddha’s Teaching is democratic even on the concept of hell.
Q: Well, it is clear now. The way you have explained on the concept of hell is quite interesting and acceptable. Thank you so much Sir for your wise teaching. ဟု
ဆိုကာျပံဳးရႊင္ၾကည္ႏူးစြာ ျပန္သြားၾကေလေတာ့၏။ ဓမၼသည္ၾကားနာရံုျဖင့္ျဖင့္ပင္ လူမ်ဳိးဘာသာမေရြး အပူစင္ကာၾကည္လင္ရႊင္လန္းေအာင္ စြမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေပ၏။
