The Monkey King or Sun Wukong ( simplified Chinese : 孙悟空 ; traditional Chinese : 孫悟空 ; pinyin : Sūn Wù Kōng ) is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main players in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West ( traditional Chinese : 西遊記 ; simplified Chinese : 西游记 ), and many later stories and adaptations. [1] In the novel, Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha . After five hundred years, 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 (India), where Buddha and his followers dw...
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