Diyu / Figures, Offices, and Places
Diyu Reading Index
Browse underworld functions, institutions, offices, figures, and places across different sources. These columns are retrieval tools, not five stages every soul must pass through, and they do not merge Buddhist Ten Kings, Daoist courts, local City Gods, and fictional episodes into one process.
Sources and traditions
The ancient-myth, Daoist-pantheon, Buddhist-underworld, vernacular-novel, folk-belief and modern-compilation layers are each marked, never merged into a single canon.
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Browse officials, figures, places, and journeys by source.
Clicking a column refreshes the next; figure and place links open their articles. Connections show how this site indexes the material, not a fixed itinerary or hierarchy established by every source.
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Ten Kings and judgment sources
Compare Ten Kings images, Yanluo, judges, registers, and judgment scenes in specific works.
Rebirth traditions
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Compare Wuchang figures, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, ghost runners, Ghost Gate, and Yellow Springs roads.
Deliverance and salvation traditions
Compare Taiyi, Ksitigarbha, Yellow-Register rites, and Water-and-Land rites in their distinct religious settings.