Near the Temple of the Five Hundred Gods is the “Temple of Horrors,” so called by foreigners, where are ten cells, in which are exhibited the various pains of the Buddhist purgatory. The actual scenes are exhibited in clay figures, about two-thirds life-size. The first cell, about ten feet square, which is the measurement of each of them, is the hall of judgment, where the poor wretches are tried. Then comes one chamber where a man is receiving from the demons a terrible whipping, being stretched on the ground face downward, by two men, while a third is beating him with a paddle. The next cell exhibits a criminal fastened in a frame, head downward, and being sawn in two, lengthwise. In the next, another is suffering the tortures of slow burning; another is supposed to be sitting under a red-hot bell. In the next there are cages, and some chained with a Chinese _cangue_; in another they are being beheaded; and, in another, they are ground in a mill and pounded in a mortar. In the next they are boiling a poor fellow in oil; and, in the last, some poor wretches, for having been guilty of eating beef, are being themselves slowly transformed into oxen. Several figures in this cell present the various steps of this transformation. In all these cells numerous figures of demons are looking on with expressions of diabolical satisfaction, and, strange to say, around the sides of each of the cells are ranged in scenic manner mountain and hillside retreats, on which are seen smaller figures of the good and saved, seeming to take an equal delight in witnessing the pains of the unhappy ones who have missed of paradise. Notwithstanding all these horrors, booths are rented out before all these cells, and a lively traffic is carried on, and the priests themselves drive a large trade in selling fans, sacrificial money, etc., which are to be burned for the use of these suffering wretches. But a Buddhist may be sent by the judges to purgatory without being obliged to remain there. The living relations, if they but pay enough to the priests, and beg often and long enough to persuade the priests to pray to Kwan-Yin, the goddess of mercy, to deliver their dead friends from purgatory, it will be accomplished, so say the priests, by means of the sacred lotus-flowers. The clay images in many of the “Temples of Horrors” are sometimes made so as to move their limbs and jaws, when a string is pulled by some unseen person. Occasionally the people meet in great crowds for the purpose of worshiping Kwan-Yin, and beseeching her to deliver from the ten departments of hell those who have no friends to intercede for them; then a wholesale delivery is supposed to take place. The priests are greatly enriched at such seasons, and therefore these occasions are numerous. MONASTERIES.