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The four protagonists, from left to right: the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang (on the White Dragon Horse), Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, as depicted on the Long Corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing The edition published by the Shidetang Hall of Jinling in 1592, considered the earliest printed version of the Journey to the West, features captioned cross-page illustrations depicting various scenes.
The Buddha, referred to as Tathāgata Buddha (如來佛祖) in the novel, is based in Leiyin Temple (雷音寺; 'Thunder Sound Temple') on Vulture Peak in the Western Pure Land.
Mark Salzman's second book The Laughing Sutra (1991) partially re-imagines the Journey to the West in the context of late 20th century Chinese history. A young man, Hsun-ching, sets out to recover a lost sutra and gains a strange-looking companion, ″the colonel″, who claims extremely long life and carries a metal staff.
The Six-Eared Macaque—and not to be mistaken for the Macaque King (獼猴王), one of the same Seven Sages (七聖) Fraternity of Sworn Brothers, that Sun Wukong is a member of—is, according to the Buddha, one of the four spiritual primates that do not belong to any of the ten categories that all beings in the universe are classified under.
Princess Iron Fan and Sun Wukong. Painting in the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace in Beijing.. Princess Iron Fan (traditional Chinese: 鐵扇公主; simplified Chinese: 铁扇公主; pinyin: Tiěshàn Gōngzhǔ; Wade–Giles: T‘ie 3-shan 4 Kung 1-chu 3; Jyutping: Tit3sin3 Gung1zyu2) is a character from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
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Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty.
The scholar Lu Xun muses, “Actually the book contains more digs at Ming fashions than laments over the fate of the country, and I suspect that it was written before the end of the [Ming] dynasty." [ 10 ] Most importantly, there is a woodblock edition of the novel that was printed during the 1628-1644 reign of the Chongzhen Emperor .