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Eighteen Hells, Ten Dates, and the Seams Between Them
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | 《佛說十八泥犁經》 in the Taishō, read in full with its variant-reading apparatus; seven full-text queries against the same canon; Nara National Museum on its ten Ten Kings scrolls; Taiwan Historica’s dictionary of folk objects; Hsieh Kuei-wen, Taiwan Historica (2025) for the 1871 prohibition; reference works for An Shigao’s dates |
| Timeline | The sutra for the second century; the canon-wide counts for the Song, Ming and twentieth-century appearances; Nara National Museum for the tenth and thirteenth; Taiwan Historica for the City God’s Sui-to-Ming spread; Hsieh Kuei-wen for 1871 |
| The Argument | The sutra’s own structure; the canon-wide counts that answer the storey; Nara National Museum on the ten judgement dates |
| What Others Add | Taiwan Historica on the City God’s office and its eight generals; the Ministry of Culture’s collections portal on the military judge; Nara National Museum on the scrolls; Hsieh Kuei-wen on the third spelling of the eighth lord’s name; the sutra’s apparatus |
| Conclusion | The sutra, for what it does and does not say; the canon-wide counts, for where the storey actually lives |
What the evidence base looks like
- 7Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 6Read in full
- 2Approached and set aside, cited nowhere
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| The primary text and the canon it sits in | 2 | Both in full, one of them through a data API because the reader page returns no text to a plain fetch |
| State archives and museum catalogues | 3 | All three in full, at the institution’s own record of its own holding |
| Peer-reviewed scholarship | 1 | In full, as the published PDF; the 1871 edict is quoted within it rather than consulted at the archive |
| General reference works | 1 | Search extracts only, and used for one loose date that the article marks as not verifiable here |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing