Scenes of the Buddhist Hell second half of the19th century Shsai This dynamic painting depicts the Buddhist hell. Most of the composition shows detailed descriptions of the types of suffering that await souls reborn in hell, with an array of punishments meted out by large, muscular, half-nude demons with red or green skin. In the upper left corner, for example, two nude figures on a platform attempt to escape as a green-skinned demon beats them. Nearby, another hapless soul is bound upside-down to a tree, watching in horror and awaiting his own punishment. Elsewhere, demons march lost souls into a pool of molten lava. A scene in the bottom third of the picture shows a group of nude children in a graveyard, some attempting to escape from an approaching demon while others beg for mercy from Jiz (Ksitigarbha in Sanskrit), a benevolent Buddhist deity associated with rescuing suffering souls, who appears here in the guise of a monk with a walking staff. Another scene in an upper regist