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| - Preta, प्रेत (Sanskrit) or Peta (Pāli), Chinese: Èguǐ 饿鬼, Tibetan: yi.dvags, is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They are often translated into English as "hungry ghosts", from the Chinese, which in turn is derived from later Indian sources generally followed in Mahayana Buddhism. In early sources such as the Petavatthu, they are much more varied. The descriptions below apply mainly in this narrower context.
- Preta (ジン俊博, Gaki; literally "Hungry Ghost") formerly known as Genzo of the Hidden Rain (雨隠れの 幻像, Amegakure no Genzō) is a shinobi originally from Amegakure and a Jonin-Rank Ninja. He was once a member of the cultist group known as Jashin (ジャシン; Literally meaning "wicked heart; evil design") and was one of their most mysterious member due to the fact that he did not show himself too much. He was a member of the group since the days of the Third Great Shinobi World War and was a devoted follower of Jashinism (ジャシン教, Jashinkyō) for quite some time before leaving the organization. During his time with the group, he was paired up with Hidan a fellow Jashinist at the time who would eventually go on to join the infamous criminal organization the Akatsuki. During his lifetime he has participated
- Preta (प्रेत in Sanskrit, Peta in Pali, Yidak (ཡི་དྭགས་) in Tibetan, E-gui (餓鬼) in Chinese, Gaki (餓鬼) in Japanese, usually "Hungry ghost" in English) is a spirit that originates from Buddhist and Hindu texts. Generally, they are the spirits of greedy, jealous or corrupted people who have become, for their negative karma, demons with an insatiable appetite for a particular substance, that can vary from corpses to anything bizarre. In some Buddhism religions, Preta is the name of one of the Six Realms that represent the Six States of Rebirth. In the Chinese traditional religion, they are beings driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way. In the modern Japanese language, spoiled children are called "gaki", as a reference to this demon. Preta are described as human-like spirits th
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