Saturday, November 06, 2004

Paranormal investigations by TAS members

Finally... The Adventure Seekers got adventure to seek... our target to investiagate, Haw Par Villa (Tiger Plam Garden)Any interested parties!!???

The place will be open from 9am to 7pm
Hmm visit the 10 stages of hell, human-like statues, the bleeding benches, the abandoned statues at the secret backyard, and the abandoned mansions beside haw par villa.

blue cap boy.story behind it.ask me.
the backyard
abandoned mansion
bleeding bench

The Legend of Hell

Here goes the legend about the 10 Courts of Hell.

Buddhists believe that reincarnation is a form of reward a retribution on their journey to Nirvana. The Ten Courts of Hell are purgatory where a person is sent to be punished for the sins and misdeeds of their past life. A sinner must go through all Ten Courts and in the tenth, final judgment will determine his form of reincarnation.

The legend of the Ten Courts of Hell tells of the punishment that await sinners after their death but before reincarnation is determined. The sinner is sent to 'hell' where he will be tormented by demonic-looking 'Yama attendants' for the misdeeds he has committed in his past life.

In purgatory, the Ten Courts of Hell are a labyrinth of infernal dungeons, each presided over by a judge who is known as the 'President' and a Registrar of Life and Death. The Presidents are recognized by their long black beards and square flat hats from which hang strings of beads. Registrars record the details of the punishment and hold a brush and set of documents.

The sinner will go through nine courts before judgment is finally reached. In each of the nine courts, he is punished for the particular sin that he has committed.

In the First Court of Hell, the virtuous are led over a golden bridge to paradise. The silver bridge to paradise is for those whose good deeds during their life outweighed the bad. Evil doers - the ones we have really come to see - are sent to repent before the Mirror of Retribution (where all their past sins are revealed to them) and then taken to a court of hell for punishment.


First Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Violating the code of filial piety Put under heavy slabs and boulders or squeezed in the middle of the grinder


Second Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Gossiping Having your tongue pierced
Stealing Made to kneel on steel granules
Wickedness Boiled in a cauldron, disemboweled, and put in a volcanic chamber


Third Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Corruption and greed Handcuffed and beaten
Disobedience and disrespect to elders Have your ribs pierced, body grilled, your lungs, heart, liver, intestines and eyes torn out
Violating and state a Confucian principles or being an unjust official Have your heart removed, knees crushed and face scraped by a mental instrument


Fourth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
General Sins Hurled into a torrential river, made to kneel on bamboo spikes, boiled in oil, head struck open
Cheating or evading income taxes Drowned under a heavy stone
Stealing Have your hands sawn off
Breaking promises have your lips split


Fifth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Cruelty to animals and friends Have your heart torn out with hooks or thrown onto protruding swords

In this Sixth Court of Hell, those who have already been punished but are still unrepentant, are punished further. This includes all crimes against any deity or Buddha or breaking any Buddhist or Confucian laws.

Sixth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Stealing from temples committing blasphemy Made to kneel on iron nails, sawn in two, gnawed by rats
Killing animals Have your body chopped in half


Seventh Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Rebelling against authorities Torn apart by dogs
Spreading false rumours Have your tongue pulled out
Using drugs, causing quarrels Thrown into a pot of boiling water


Eighth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Committing crimes against Confucianism and operating houses for immoral purposes Crushed under carriage wheels, sliced, disemboweled, struck by lighting, and having tongues, arms and legs cut off


Ninth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Smuggling, committing arson Attacked by snakes, stung by bees, tortured or trafficking drugs in boiling oil
Writing or painting erotic literature or scenes Flattened between two planks, have your head crushed in an iron ring, skull steamed, bones scraped and tendons pulled out

In the Tenth Court of Hell, the President passes his final judgment and the sinner goes through one of the seven-ways in the Wheel of Reincarnation. Shaped like a wheel, wind and clouds billow out from the circle in the centre and the six other circles surrounding it. Depending on the sinner's past life, he will enter a particular way which will determine how he will be reborn.



Tenth Court of Hell

The sinner will be reincarnated as:
First Way Wealthy and powerful human
Second Way Birds
Third Way Farmers and labourers
Fourth Way Working class folk
Fifth Way Dragons, fish, crabs, insects or sea creatures
Sixth Way Lions, tigers, horses, deer, elephant or other four-legged animals
Seventh Way Poor, lonely and the destitue


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