What are pretas in Buddhism?

Bright on Buddhism Episode 70 - What are pretas in Buddhism? What is their status in the canon? How ought we understand them? Resources: Firth, Shirley. End of Life: A Hindu View. The Lancet 2005, 366:682-86; Sharma, H.R. Funeral Pyres Report. Benares Hindu University 2009.; Garuda Purana. J.L. Shastri/A board of scholars. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1982.; Garuda Purana. Ernest Wood, S.V. Subrahmanyam, 1911.; Monier-Williams, Monier M. Sir. A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Delhi, India : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990. ISBN 81-208-0069-9.; Adrian Cirlea, Josho (29 August 2017). "Contemplating the Suffering of Hungry Ghosts (Pretas)". Amida-Ji Retreat Temple Romania.; Hackley, Rungpaka; Hackley, Chris (2015). "How the Hungry Ghost Mythology Reconciles Materialism and Spirituality in Thai Death Rituals". Qualitative Market Research. 4 (18): 427–441. doi:10.1108/QMR-08-2014-0073.; Tzohar, Roy (2017). "Imagine Being a Preta: Early Indian Yogācāra Approaches to Intersubjectivity". Sophia. 56 (2): 337–354. doi:10.1007/s11841-016-0544-y. S2CID 171169300.; Venerable Yin-shun. The Way to Buddhahood. Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications: 1998.; Baroni, Helen J. Ph.D. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated: 2002.; Gregory, Peter N., ed. Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press: 1995.; Eberhardt, Wolfram. Chinese Festivals. New York: Abelard-Schuman Ltd.: 1958.; Stephen F. Teiser (1996). The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton University Press.; Eberhard, Stephen F. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. New Jersey: Princeton University Press: 1988.; Orzech, Charles D. (1989). "Seeing Chen-Yen Buddhism: Traditional Scholarship and the Vajrayāna in China". History of Religions. 29 (2): 87–114. doi:10.1086/463182. ISSN 0018-2710. JSTOR 1062679. S2CID 162235701; DeBernardi, Jean Elizabeth, and Jean DeBernardi. Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity & Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2004. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host