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Yanluo
Also: Yánluó Wáng
Chinese tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- king of the dead, judgment
Key myth
The ruler of the underworld, who judges the dead in the Ten Courts of Hell, in Chinese Buddhism. The name goes back to the Indian Yama.
Where sources differ or caution applies. Of Indian origin by way of Buddhism.
Primary sources
- Buddhist scriptures (translated from Sanskrit)
- Journey to the West
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Yanluo: death and the underworld. This is overlap in one area only.