padma

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Tibetan: པད་མ་ལྟར་གས་པ་
Tibetan (Wylie): pad ma ltar gas pa
Tibetan (phonetics): padma tar ge pa
English term: Cracked like a Lotus Hell
English definition: According to the Abhidharma, the seventh of the eight Cold Hells. Where the cold is even greater than the previous hell, due to such cold one’s body crack even more, the blizzard like winds tear away the skin until one’s body is red. Cracking open to resembling a lotus flower.