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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Character in Chinese mythology For other uses, see Monkey King (disambiguation). "Wukong" redirects here. For other uses, see Wukong (disambiguation). "Qi Tian Da Sheng" redirects here. For Pu Songling's story, see The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal. In this Chinese name, the family name is ...
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.
At the buddha's suggestion, Sun Wukong transforms into a watermelon, allowing the unsuspecting yaoguai to eat him and enter his stomach. Sun Wukong causes great agony to the yaoguai in his stomach, forcing him to surrender and return to Maitreya. The Python Demon (蟒蛇精) is a yaoguai based in Tuoluo Manor (駝羅庄) on Qijue Mountain ...
After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. Five hundred years later, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) riding on the White Dragon Horse and two other disciples, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing , on a journey to obtain Buddhist sutras from the West ( Central Asia and India ), where Buddha and his ...
Sun Wukong (also known as The Monkey King), a Buddhist deity and a character in the classical Chinese epic Journey to the West; Sarugami of Japan, often depicted as evil deities, as in the tales of Shippeitaro; Howler monkey gods, a patron of the artisans among the Classic Mayas; La Ciudad Blanca, sometimes referred to as a "City of the Monkey God"
Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, and even the author consistently refers to him as "the idiot" over the course of the story. Bodhisattvas and other heavenly beings usually refer to him as "Tiānpéng" (天蓬), his former title when he was a heavenly marshal.
Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóu Jì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.It is regarded as one of the great Chinese novels, and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia. [2]
A Buddha is a being who is fully awakened and has fully comprehended the Four Noble Truths.In the Theravada tradition, while there is a list of acknowledged past Buddhas, the historical Buddha Sakyamuni is the only Buddha of our current era and is generally not seen as accessible or as existing in some higher plane of existence.