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Its a daoist temple.
The figures are just plaster, they also are rather new from a restauration in the early 90s.
Hell is just temporary, stay and type of punishment depend on the graveness of sin. Afterwards its back to reincarnation.
There is a King of hell, and ten judges of hell.
Which one is responsible for which sins I have to look up.
Gravest sin for example is killing your parents.
Its fairly similar to most other religious rules for behaviour, killing, stealing, lying, adultery are bad.
In Buddhism there are other grave sins, like killing a luohan, spilling blood of a buddha, causing schism in the clergy, but these are just related especially to buddhism.
The sin also results in a specific type of rebirth for example as an insect. There are different departments for those.
There also are departments in the otherworld which are responsible for prolonging and shorting the lifespan of a person in accordance with their deeds.