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Upon realizing that he is at the top of the 33 layers of the heavenly palace, Sun Wukong steals and consumes Laozi’s Pills of Immortality and Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality, takes the remainder of the Jade Emperor’s royal wine, and then escapes back to his kingdom in preparation for his rebellion.
Sun Wukong (孫悟空), better known as the Monkey King in translations, is a monkey born from a stone on Mount Huaguo who acquires magic powers by learning from Master Bodhi. After starting a rebellion against Heaven, he is subdued and imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha for 500 years.
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]
Scene 1: Birth of Monkey and His Quest for Immortality; Monkey hatches from a stone egg and makes his home in the forest. Over time, he becomes obsessed with seeking immortality, and travels the world to find a teacher. He finds Subodhi in the Mountain of Heart and Mind, who gives him the name Sun Wu Kong — the Monkey with the Realisation of ...
Anthony C. Yu writes in his unabridged translation of The Journey to the West that Wuzhiqi "has provided many scholars with a prototype of Sun Wukong" and that the author of Journey himself had "certainly" read of Wuzhiqi – in Chapter 66, it is referred to as the "Water Ape Great Sage" (水猿大聖) – but that Wuzhiqi and Sun Wukong are ...
Radiate crown (also Solar crown, Sun crown, Eastern crown or Tyrant's crown), a crown or other headgear symbolizing the sun or more generally powers associated with the sun. Corona Borealis (Northern Crown), the crown was considered to represent a crown given by Dionysus to Ariadne, after she was taken from the Athenian prince Theseus. When she ...
Saint (Chinese: 大聖王; pinyin: Dàshèng wáng; lit. 'The Great Saint King') is a manhua by Hong Kong comics artist Khoo Fuk Lung.It follows the life and adventures of Sun Wukong, the monkey king from the 16th century novel Journey to the West.
The best-known of these is Sun Wukong, the main protagonist in Wu Cheng'en's picaresque novel Journey to the West, also known as Monkey. In the southern regions of China, many temples were built to the monkey-god who is worshipped as the Qitian dasheng 齊天大聖 "great saint equal to heaven", which was a name of Sun Wukong.