A Journey Through Chinese Hell: Hell Scrolls of Taiwan

By Neal Donnelly

Hell Scrolls, a popular art form disdained by Chinese intellectuals and rarely preserved after their use, are now valuable historic artifacts and records of folk art and religion. The two rare and beautiful sets of scrolls illustrated here depict the ten stages or courts, each ruled by a king, in which the souls of the deceased atone for transgressions during life, then pass on to reincarnation. Such scrolls were used in protracted funeral ceremonies to chart the progress of the soul, thus reassuring anxious relatives when the shade had cleared the tenth and final court.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976365
• ISBN13: 9780295976365
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 10.0"