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Journey to the West

Cheng-En Wu

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The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the "Western Regions", that is, India, to obtain sacred texts and returned after many trials and much suffering. It retains the broad outline of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, but the Ming dynasty novel adds elements from folk tales and the author's invention, that is, that the Buddha gave this task to the monk and provided him with three protectors who agree to help him as an atonement for their sins. These disciples are Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse. Journey to the West has strong roots in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, and the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas are still reflective of some Chinese religious attitudes today. Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment which each of them can achieve only with the help of all of the others.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: Jan 20th, 2015
  • Pages: 674
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.48in - 2.15lb
  • EAN: 9781507627839
  • Categories: • General

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Husband Jedi Time-Lord Sky Pirate Gunslinger, After Dinner Raconteur, Gamer, Geek, Scribbler of Weird Things, He/Him

@MicheleQuirke Recently finished Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. Quite fun. Currently on Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'En. My TBR pile is massive, so I'm not sure. Maybe a book of alternate universe Holmes and Watson stories I've got in the Tiny Bedside Table Library. Heh.

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