Oh yes and the Chinese model tends to be heavily bureaucratic. Offices and departments and titles for processing the dead.
I think part of the whole thing is ... are you talking about the world, or are you talking about the state of afterlife? Because the spirit can linger on this earth, or there can be a process of going Outside of this Realm.
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Date: 2005-02-25 06:50 am (UTC)I think part of the whole thing is ... are you talking about the world, or are you talking about the state of afterlife? Because the spirit can linger on this earth, or there can be a process of going Outside of this Realm.