Ping Deng Wang, or King Ping Deng, resides in the Ninth Court of Di Yu (地狱 dì yù), where he passes judgement on the souls (魂 hún) that are brought to his domain.

The Ninth Court of Di Yu is located under the Wo Jiao Stone (沃焦石 wò jiāo shí) that marks southwest, which in-turn is located at the bottom of the Great Sea. The Ninth Court is said to stretch over 20,000 leagues, and has 16 additional "sub" Di Yu. 

As the Yama of the Ninth Court, Ping Deng Wang passes judgement on souls that have been sent to him by Qin Guang Wang (秦广王 qín guǎng wáng). These souls will have committed crimes of the following nature in their previous life on Earth - also known as the Yang Realm (阳间 yáng jiān):

1. A person who kills their father;

2. A person who kills their mother;

3. A person that kills a monk who has reached the status of Arahant;

4. A person that draws blood from a Buddha. Since Buudhas are no longer of this earth, this now refers to a person who destroys the likeness of a Buddha, Bodhisattva, Great Arahant, or other holy beings, or otherwise shows malice and hatred towards them;

5. A person that spreads rumors, meddles with right and wrong, causes disputes within a spiritual site or group, eventually causing the spiritual site or group to fall apart;

6. A person that eats food that belongs to monk for no other reason than greed;

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7. A person that uses objects that have been offered to a Buddha;

8. A person who encourages a monk to break any of the Five Precepts (五戒 wǔ jiè)¹;

9. A person that violates Bhikkhunī²;

10. A person with no goodness in their heart that commits any and all of the Ten Evil Karmas (十恶 shí è)³;

11. A person who violates the laws of the land, much like the Ten Evil Karmas, and are executed as a result;

12. A person that sets a fire that destroys another's property or takes the life of another;

13. A person that creates a method or establishment that is used to confuse and control the thoughts of others, or a drug that controls others' consciousness, such as amphetamines, morphine, marijuana, poison, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, opium, etc.;

14. A person that carries out or aids another to abort a child;

15. A person that coaxes young boys or girls to commit sexual crimes, harms the body or mind of an innocent young person, or rapes an underage girl;

16. A person that creates art or writes content of a sexual nature, disrupting the pure hearts of others; that causes a scholar to have no mind to learn, or a spiritual practitioner to lose their compassion; that causes others to do ill unto their neighbours, overlooking their own ethics and morals;

17. A person that refines illegal drugs that are harmful to society, such as poisons or drugs that induce abortion, that make people lose their hearing, language ability and self-control;

Depending on the severity of each individual crime they committed, the soul will go through 1, many, or all of the 16 sub Di Yu that reside within the Ninth Court. Each of the 16 Di Yu are named after the torture method that is used within. The souls are tortured in each sub Di Yu for a period of time that the Yama judges to be necessary. Should they "die" during the process, or if they lose a limb for example, the soul will be "repaired" or "resurrected" again for the next round. And so on, and so forth

Below is the name of each sub Di Yu roughly translated, in chronological order:

1. Strike Bones [and] Burn Body 敲骨灼身 (qiāo gǔ zhuó shēn)
2. Rip Out Tendons [and] Pound Bones 抽筋擂骨 (chōu jīn léi gǔ)
3. Crows Feast [on] Heart and Liver 鸦食心肝 (yā shí xīn gān)
4. Dogs Feast [on] Intestines and Lungs 狗食肠肺 (gǒu shí cháng fèi)
5. Body Splashed [with] Boiling Oil 身溅热油 (shēn jiàn rè yóu)
6. [with] Head Bound Remove Tongue and Teeth 脑箍拔舌拔齿 (nǎo gū bá shé bá chǐ)
7. Remove Brain 取脑 (qǔ nǎo)
8. Steam Head [and] Scrape Brain 蒸头刮脑 (zhēng tóu guā nǎo)
9. Goat Make Muscle [into] Minced Meat 羊搐成醢 (yáng chù chéng hǎi)
10. Wood [to] Clamp [down the] Crown of the Head 木夹顶 (mù jiā dǐng)
11. Grind [the] Heart 磨心 (mó xīn)
12. Pour Boiling Soup [over] Body 沸汤淋身 (fèi tāng lín shēn)
13. Yellow Bees 黄蜂 (huáng fēng)
14. Scorpion Hook 蝎钩 (xiē gōu)
15. Endure Ants and Termites 蚁蛀熬 (yǐ zhù áo)
16. Purple and Red Poisonous Snakes Bore Holes 紫赤毒蛇钻孔 (zǐ chì dú shé zuǎn kǒng)

Some of the torture methods include having your brain removed from your head and having your heart ripped out and grinded down infront of you. 

¹ Put simply, the Five Precepts are:

1. No killing
2. No stealing
3. No adultery
4. No lying
5. No intoxication

 

² A bhikkhunī is a fully ordained female monk in Buddhism

³ The Ten Evil Karmas include:

1. killing
2. stealing
3. sexual misconduct
4. false speech
5. divisive speech
6. abusive speech
7. suggestive speech,
8. greed
9. anger
10. the wrong views⁴

 

⁴ "the wrong view" is that false reality we invent and construct for ourselves based on our misinformed perception of everything. Wrong views, according to the Buddha, are the source of all harmful actions of our body, speech and mind that trap us in an endless cycle of suffering known as samsara.

To read more on Di Yu, check out my blog: A Journey Through Di Yu - "Chinese Hell"