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37 relations: Anantarika-karma, Avīci, Bao Zheng, Bodhisattva, Body orifice, Buddhism, Chang'an, Chinese calendar, Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Fengdu County, Fengdu Ghost City, Flaying, Fuji (planchette writing), Ghost Festival, Heibai Wuchang, Hell, Hell money, Hell Scroll (Nara National Museum), Jade Emperor, Jade Record, Jiang Ziwen, Journeys to the Under-World, Kṣitigarbha, Maudgalyayana, Meng Po, Mount Tai, Naraka (Buddhism), Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Tang dynasty, Taoism, Yama (Buddhism), Yin and yang, Yomi, Youdu.
Anantarika-karma
Ānantarika-karma or ānantarika-kamma is a heinous crime that through karmic process brings immediate disaster.
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Avīci
In Buddhism, (Sanskrit and Pali for "without waves" – Chinese and Japanese: 無間地獄, Wújiàn dìyù and 阿鼻地獄, Ābí dìyù) or Avichi is the lowest level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn.
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Bao Zheng
Bao Zheng (包拯; 11 April 999 – 20 May 1062), commonly known as Bao Gong (包公, "Lord Bao"), was a government officer during the reign of Emperor Renzong in China's Song Dynasty.
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Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.
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Body orifice
A body orifice is any opening in the body of an animal.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Chang'an
Chang'an was an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an.
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Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar (official Chinese name: Rural Calendar, alternately Former Calendar, Traditional Calendar, or Lunar Calendar) is a lunisolar calendar which reckons years, months and days according to astronomical phenomena.
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Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.
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Chinese mythology
Chinese mythology refers to myths found in the historical geographic area of China: these include myths in Chinese and other languages, as transmitted by Han Chinese and other ethnic groups, which have their own languages and myths.
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Fengdu County
Fengdu County (formerly) is a county located in Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China.
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Fengdu Ghost City
Fengdu Ghost City (originally 酆都鬼城) is a large complex of shrines, temples and monasteries dedicated to the afterlife located on the Ming mountain, in Fengdu County, Chongqing municipality, China.
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Flaying
Flaying, also known colloquially as skinning, is a method of slow and painful execution in which skin is removed from the body.
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Fuji (planchette writing)
Fuji is a method of "planchette writing", or "spirit writing", that uses a suspended sieve or tray to guide a stick which writes Chinese characters in sand or incense ashes.
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Ghost Festival
The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, Zhongyuan Jie (中元节), Gui Jie (鬼节) or Yulan Festival is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain Asian countries.
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Heibai Wuchang
The Heibai Wuchang, or Hak Bak Mo Seong, literally "Black and White Impermanence", are two deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the Underworld.
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Hell
Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife.
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Hell money
Hell money is a form of joss paper printed to resemble legal tender bank notes.The notes are not an official form of recognized currency or legal tender since their sole intended purpose is to be offered as burnt offerings to the deceased as a superstitious solution to resolve their ancestors’ financial problems.
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Hell Scroll (Nara National Museum)
is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kisekyō ("Sutra of the World Arising").
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Jade Emperor
The Jade Emperor (or 玉帝) in Chinese culture, traditional religions and myth is one of the representations of the first god (太帝). In Daoist theology he is the assistant of Yuanshi Tianzun, who is one of the Three Pure Ones, the three primordial emanations of the Tao.
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Jade Record
The Jade Record or Yuli (玉曆) is an illustrated religious tract that circulated in various versions and editions in the 19th century in China.
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Jiang Ziwen
Jiang Ziwen was a wei of Moling (modern Nanjing) county in China during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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Journeys to the Under-World
Journeys to The Under-World, also known as Voyages to Hell, is a Taiwanese novel describing what Yangsheng (楊生), a planchette handler, saw and heard when he followed his master Ji Gong to hell on the instruction of the Jade Emperor.
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Kṣitigarbha
Kṣitigarbha (Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ /) is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk.
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Maudgalyayana
Maudgalyāyana (Moggallāna), also known as Mahāmaudgalyāyana, was one of the Buddha's closest disciples.
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Meng Po
Meng Po is the Lady of Forgetfulness in Chinese mythology.
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Mount Tai
Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an, in Shandong province, China.
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Naraka (Buddhism)
Naraka (नरक; निरय Niraya) is a term in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology usually referred to in English as "hell" (or "hell realm") or "purgatory".
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Ox-Head and Horse-Face
Ox-Head and Horse-Face are two guardians or types of guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology.
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Purgatory
In Roman Catholic theology, purgatory (via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is an intermediate state after physical death in which some of those ultimately destined for heaven must first "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," holding that "certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come." And that entrance into Heaven requires the "remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven," for which indulgences may be given which remove "either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin," such as an "unhealthy attachment" to sin.
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Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Taoism
Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as ''Dao'').
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Yama (Buddhism)
In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama (sometimes known as the King of Hell, King Yan or Yanluo) is a dharmapala (wrathful god) said to judge the dead and preside over the Narakas ("Hells" or "Purgatories") and the cycle of afterlife saṃsāra.
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Yin and yang
In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (and; 陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
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Yomi
is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness).
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Youdu
Youdu in Chinese mythology is the capital of Hell, or Diyu.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diyu
