A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire (1842)
Langdon, William B · London : Printed for the proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection · leaf 17
d to be canonized with eachDeity, but Boodh took only 24,000 of his company to heaven with him.The lowest estate is hell—the next, souls in the forms of brutes; andboth these are states of punishment. The state above is probationary—that of man ; and still above degrees of honour and happiness, up… … EL CHINESE TEMPLE AND IDOLS. 13 the contrary, goes into the lower states of punishment. The Boodhistsbelieve there are four superior heavens; below these, twelve otherheavens, with six other inferior heavens. After these comes the Earth ;then the world of snakes; then thirty-two chief hells, and…
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