Avici

In Buddhism, IAST|Avīci (Sanskrit and Pali: "without waves"; also transliterated "Avichi", Japanese and Chinese language: 無間地獄, むけんじごく and 阿鼻地獄, あびじごく) is the lowest level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn.

People reborn in IAST|Avīci generally have committed one or more of the Five Grave Offenses:

* Intentionally murdering one's father
* Intentionally murdering one's mother
* Killing an Arhat (enlightened being)
* Shedding the blood of a Buddha
* Creating a schism within the Sangha, the community of Buddhist monks and nuns. Buddhism teaches that rebirth into Naraka is temporary, while the offending being works off the karma they performed. Similarly, rebirth into IAST|Avīci hell is not eternal. However, suffering in IAST|Avīci is the longest of all the levels of hell, by some accounts over 10¹⁸ years long. Some sutras state that rebirth in IAST|Avīci will be for innumerable kalpas (eons). When the offending being passes away after one kalpa, he is again reborn in the same place, undergoing suffering for another kalpa, and on and on until he has exhausted his bad karmaFact|date=December 2007. For this reason, IAST|Avīci hell is also known as the "non-stop way" ( _zh. 無間道).