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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

by Stephen F. Teiser

A study and translation of the Chinese scripture describing the ten courts of the underworld through which the dead pass, with its illustrated manuscripts from Dunhuang. It shows how Buddhist karma and Chinese bureaucratic imagery combined to create a purgatory and its memorial rites.

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