A hungry ghost in Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion is a being who is driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way. The Chinese name 餓鬼; èguǐ; 'hungry ghost' translates the Sanskrit
A Chinese Buddhist monk and his attendants performing the Yujia Yankou ritual, a rite that fulfils several different functions, including feeding hungry ghosts.
Yujia Yankou ritual at Bangka Lungshan Temple during the Yulanpen Festival.
Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
Preta, also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of