King Pingdeng
The ninth court invokes equal accountability.
The ninth court
King Pingdeng, whose title invokes equality, occupies the ninth court in the popular sequence used here. Yuli Baochao connects him with Avici, the hell of uninterrupted suffering, and with punishment for grave violence. The narrative idea is that high social rank cannot exempt a wrongdoer from consequences.
Equality in a particular narrative
The text's intense punishments belong to a historical moral imagination; recording them does not endorse their use as justice. Some versions put Pingdeng in the eighth court and Dushi in the ninth. Avici also has a Buddhist textual history broader than its placement in this ten-court arrangement. For those reasons, neither the sequence nor a popular description of his court should be treated as the one account shared by all Buddhist traditions. The atlas keeps the alternatives visible rather than hiding them behind a single diagram.
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