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Part of the story here also relates to how Xuánzàng becomes a monk (as well as revealing his past life as the 'Golden Cicada' and comes about being sent on this pilgrimage by the Emperor Táng Tàizōng, who previously escaped death with the help of an underworld official). Dismayed that 'the land of the South knows only greed, hedonism, promiscuity, and sins', the Buddha instructs the Bodhisattva Guānyīn to search Táng China for someone to take the Buddhist sutras of 'transcendence and persuasion for good will' back to the East. Chapters 8–12 provide his early biography and the background to his great journey. Only following this introductory story is the nominal main character, Xuánzàng, introduced. Hubris proves his downfall when the Buddha manages to trap him under a mountain for five hundred years. His powers grow to match the forces of all of the Eastern (Taoist) deities, and the prologue culminates in Sūn's rebellion against Heaven, during a time when he garnered a post in the celestial bureaucracy. It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sūn Wùkōng, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself as the Qítiān Dàshèng, or 'Great Sage Equal to Heaven'. The first, which includes chapters 1–7, is really a self-contained prequel to the main body of the story. The novel comprises 100 chapters that can be divided into four very unequal parts. Gohan as the Monkey King (' Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!')

Part of the novel's enduring popularity comes from the fact that it works on multiple levels: it is a first-rate adventure story, a dispenser of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeying toward India stands for the individual journeying toward enlightenment.

Journey to the West has a strong background in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology and value systems the pantheon of Taoist deities and Buddhist bodhisattvas is still reflective of Chinese folk religious beliefs today. Some scholars propose that the book satirizes the effete Chinese government at the time. These four characters have agreed to help Xuánzàng as an atonement for past sins. On instruction from the Buddha, the Bodhisattva Kuan Yin|Guānyīn gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples: namely Sūn Wùkōng, Zhū Bājiè and Shā Wùjìng together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuánzàng's horse mount. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legends around the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng's pilgrimage to India during the Táng dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist religious texts called sutras. 5.4.1 Works referencing Journey to the Westĭragon Ball characters depicted as Journey to the West characters ( Toriyama - The World & Daizenshuu 1).4 Notable English-language translations.

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