A Liberating Hell: Revisiting Dante's Inferno with Amida-Buddha

by Kiley Jon Clark

Dante wrote the original Inferno to put his enemies there. At the time of its writing, Dante was in exile from his beloved City of Florence, Italy, because a rival political party took power and demanded that he and his family leave the city under 'threat of death'. In Dante’s Inferno, he takes the reader on a journey guided by the ancient Roman Poet, Virgil. The reader is taken through all nine levels of Hell, where Dante’s enemies are being tortured in very imaginative ways. In this book, “Liberating Hell”, the reader returns to Dante’s Inferno, but this time with Amida-Buddha as their Merciful Guide. The reader joins Dante and Amida-Buddha as they set free all those that have been trapped in torment in Hell. These captives can now move on to the Buddhist Pure Land of Bliss and Happiness where they will become future Buddhas. This work was created to be a Symbolic-Map through The Dark Night of the Soul. That, with the help of Amitabha, we too might be 'Liberated' from our own private hells. By seeing our own fear, regret, depression, hopelessness, prejudices, and limited world-view in the characters within, we may more easily come to understand...that it need not be this way. May all Being benefit. Namaste.

522 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 5, 2016