Burn in hell
Sep. 25th, 2004 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneorangeConnor went with his Bigs to a Buddhist temple last weekend and came home with these:
I had never heard of Hell Notes before
When my sister researched it, she wrote. :
Most of the information I found says that the money was burned or used in a rituals for the dead, and that it was named "Hell money" because missionaries told the Chinese people that they would "go to Hell" if they did not convert to Christianity. Being threatened with Hell apparently gave the Chinese the impression that Hell is the English word for "afterlife," which does not carry the same meaning for Buddhists as it does for Christians. It is missing the fear factor, so to speak. The missionaries probably should have been a little more specific about the nature of Hell, if they wanted to put the fear into their prospective converts. If you check out some of the links I posted, you will see that most of the money pictured on other sites is quite beautiful and very colorful. It is easy to understand why people collect Hell Money.
I had never heard of Hell Notes before
When my sister researched it, she wrote. :
Most of the information I found says that the money was burned or used in a rituals for the dead, and that it was named "Hell money" because missionaries told the Chinese people that they would "go to Hell" if they did not convert to Christianity. Being threatened with Hell apparently gave the Chinese the impression that Hell is the English word for "afterlife," which does not carry the same meaning for Buddhists as it does for Christians. It is missing the fear factor, so to speak. The missionaries probably should have been a little more specific about the nature of Hell, if they wanted to put the fear into their prospective converts. If you check out some of the links I posted, you will see that most of the money pictured on other sites is quite beautiful and very colorful. It is easy to understand why people collect Hell Money.