It was a revelation to me to read the details of the many hells that the Tibetan Buddhist tradition believes in. The horrors described by the 16 year old Delog (a person who "dies" and returns to life after about 5 days) in the afterlife make Dante's hell a beach. The rest of her life is spent exhorting others to behave well lest they end up in one of these hells. Crimes include, in addition to what you'd expect - murder, theft - "wrong" thinking, rudeness to a Lama, killing an animal without the need to do so, not sharing one's meal with a visitor...for all these one gets an after-life of torture unending. Don't read it before bedtime!