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In an age when few dread eternal damnation and the torments of hell no longer function as a deterrent to bad behavior, a stunning exhibition at the Asia Society Museum expands our knowledge of this infernal nether region.

With fifty-four superlative Asian artworks spanning the tenth to twenty-first centuries, this international loan exhibition explores portrayals of hell and conceptions of the afterlife across Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam.

This first of its kind U.S. exhibition explores portrayals of hell across the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam.