Taizong's hell

S26: The Eastern Peak

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The Eastern Peak or Dongyue 東嶽 refers to the overseers of life and death, and here an auspicious birth is underway. Worship of the Eastern Peak is separate from and predates the ten magistrates, although it also came to coexist with them. (Sometimes the Eastern Peak is even incorporated into the system of the ten hells, becoming a subsequent bureaucratic office or "supreme court" overseeing all ten.) Many Eastern Peak temples survived into the twentieth century. (Image: 57 X 114 cm.)