The dragon, image, and demon : or, The three religions of China, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism : giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese (1886)
DuBose, Hampden C · London : Partridge · leaf 314
t you see. On inquiring the meaning, one is told that the beef is indicting the butcher before the judge for cow-slaughter. The Undivided Hell.—This is an iron city 18,000 miles in circumference, and the walls 1,000 miles high, of solid iron; fire from above descends, and fire from below ascends;… … There is an iron bed 10,000 miles long, and the criminal is stretched its whole length. The Earth-Prison.—The punishments recorded in the “Jade Record” and other works on future torment give frightful pictures of the tortures of bad men; in many Buddhist temples these are represented by small…
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