So the concept of purgatory or hell, as a place of endless suffering, was actually an alien importation. According to Buddhist doctrine, everything in the cosmos--including hell--comes about as the result of the power of karma.
其實，照佛家的說法，宇宙一切﹘﹘包括地獄﹘ ﹘都是應眾生業力所感而成的。