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SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS
Number 109
October, 2000
In Hell the One Without Sin Is Lord:
Sino-Japanese Tales of Descent into the Underworld
by
Conán Dean Carey
Victor H. Mair, Editor
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Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Corum Dean
Carey,
"In
Hell the One Without Sin Is Lord"
Sino-Platonic Papers, 109 (October, 2000)
Contents
•
Part One
Introduction.................................................................................1
I.
The Folktale on Emperor T'
ai
Tsung's
Descent Found at Tun-huang..............................................7
ll.
How Chinese Tales of the
Underworld Evolved...........................................................9
ill.
Origins of the Story of Emperor
T'ai
Tsung....................11
IV.
The Ligh.ter Side of Hell......................................................
13
V. Japanese Stories
with
Textual or Thematic
Links to the Tale of Emperor T'
ai
Tsung..........................14
VI.
The Story of Nichizo:
A
J
apan~se
Emperor
in
Hell..............................................
21
VIT.
Conclusion:
The
Origin
of Kitano Tenjin Shrine
and its Chinese Predecessors............................................
28
Part Two
Introduction.................................................................................32
I.
11te
Book
of
Maudgalyiiyana ................................................
33
. ll.
The Transformation Texts on Maudgalyayana...............36
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Conan Dean Carey,
"In
Hell the One Without Sin
Is
Lord"
Sino-Platonic Papers, 109 (October, 2000)
ill.
Chinese Wizards Who Journeyed to Hell
in
th.e
Buddhist Canon........................................................42
IV.
Manichaean and Dionysian Echoes
in
the Maudgalyayana Cycle..............................................48
V. Conclusion..............................................................................54
Select Bibliography.................................................................................56
ii
Corum
Dean Carey,
"In
Hell the
One
Without
Sin
Is Lord"
Sino-Platonic Papers,
109 (Oct., 2000)
In
Hell the
One
Without Sin
Is
Lord:
Sino-Japanese Tales of Descent into the Underworld
Conan Dean Carey
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Part
One
An
intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
-Victor Hugo,
Ninety-three, 1874
Introduction
The genre of
Jigoku meguri
or IItours of Hell"
in
Japanese literature
has
been
little studied by scholars outside Japan, yet the theme is ubiquitous in the medieval
setsuwa
collections. The motif is listed as number 470 in Hiroko Ikeda's
pathbreaking work
A Type and Motif Index
of
Japanese Folk-Literature,
where she
remarks IIIn Nippon Ryooiki,
822 A.D.,
there are
12
versions .... In Konjaku, ca.
1050
A.D., I find 84 versions .... These early versions appear time and again
in
later
Buddhist literature, but are unknown in oral tradition."l Ikeda
also
offers a general
outline of the development of a typical
Jigoku meguri,
which runs as follows:
I. The Visit. A Buddhist priest (courtier, layman) who during
his
life
has
done
some good and some evil deeds, dies suddenly. The body is not cremated, but
is attended and a watch kept by the family or friends.
II.
The
Journey. Two (five to ten) messengers come to take
him
to Hell
(Paradise).
Hiroko Ikeda,
"A
Type and Motif Index of Japanese Folk-Literature,"
in FF
Communications
(Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1971), v. LXXXIX, No. 209, p.
119.
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