Ten Kings of Hell. Artist: Jin Chushi (Chinese, active late 12th century). Culture: China. Dimensions: Image: 51 x 19 1/2 in. (129.5 x 49.5 cm)Overall with knobs: 80 x 27 1/2 in. (203.2 x 69.9 cm). Date: before 1195.This is one from a set of scrolls (30.76.290-.294) illustrating the theme of the Ten Kings of Hell, which developed during the second half of the Tang dynasty (618-907). The theme transforms the Indian Buddhist view of judgment after death into a typically Chinese bureaucratic process. Before being permitted to transmigrate into the next life, a soul is tried by a different king each week for seven weeks; it is sent to the eighth king on the hundredth day, to the ninth after a year, and to the tenth the third year after death. Here, each scroll shows a king--assisted by a scribe and other officials--examining and passing sentence on the souls of the dead; in the foreground demons punish the wicked.Most extant Song and Yuan dynasty Buddhist paintings were preserved in Jap

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Ten Kings of Hell. Artist: Jin Chushi (Chinese, active late 12th century). Culture: China. Dimensions: Image: 51 x 19 1/2 in. (129.5 x 49.5 cm)Overall with knobs: 80 x 27 1/2 in. (203.2 x 69.9 cm). Date: before 1195.This is one from a set of scrolls (30.76.290-.294) illustrating the theme of the Ten Kings of Hell, which developed during the second half of the Tang dynasty (618-907). The theme transforms the Indian Buddhist view of judgment after death into a typically Chinese bureaucratic process. Before being permitted to transmigrate into the next life, a soul is tried by a different king each week for seven weeks; it is sent to the eighth king on the hundredth day, to the ninth after a year, and to the tenth the third year after death. Here, each scroll shows a king--assisted by a scribe and other officials--examining and passing sentence on the souls of the dead; in the foreground demons punish the wicked.Most extant Song and Yuan dynasty Buddhist paintings were preserved in Jap

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