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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.
Aug 8, 2023 · The Monkey King is an animated Netflix adaptation of Wu Cheng'en's classic novel, Journey to the West, featuring the iconic character from Chinese mythology. It incorporates new elements while staying true to the original story.
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Sun Wukong (Chinese: 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ûkʰʊ́ŋ]), also known as the Monkey King, is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. [1]
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Sun Wukong (孫悟空, Sūn Wùkōng?), also known as Great Sage Equal of Heaven (齊天大聖, Qí tiān dàshèng?), Handsome Monkey King (美猴王, Měihóu wáng?), Heaven-born Stone Monkey (天產石猴, Tiān chǎn shí hóu?), is one of the main characters in Journey to the West.
He is a monkey born from a magical rock on top of Flowers and Fruit Mountain. When his eyes moved, two beams of golden light shot towards the Heavenly Palace and surprise the Jade Emperor. On the mountain, the monkey befriends various animals and joins a group of other monkeys. They decide to seek the stream's source and climb the mountain to a waterfall. They declare that whoever goes through the waterfall, finds the stream's source, and comes out again will become their king.
In search of a weapon, he travels to the oceans and gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang which stabilizes the Four Seas and is the Treasure of the Eastern Dragon King. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under Five Finger Mountain for 500 years by Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India. At the end of the journey, Wukong is granted the title of Victorious Fighting Buddha and ascends to Buddhahood.
Sun Wukong possesses many abilities:
•He has amazing strength and is able to support the weight of two heaven mountains on his shoulders while running "with the speed of a meteor". He is extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li in one somersault.
•He has vast memorization skills and can remember every monkey ever born. As king of the monkeys it is his duty to keep track of and protect every monkey.
•Sun Wukong also acquires the 72 Earthly Transformations, which allow him to access 72 unique powers, including the ability to transform into animals and objects, as well as disguise himself as other people and beings. He once disguises himself as Jade Emperor to troll Erlang Shen.
•He is a skilled fighter, capable of defeating the best warriors of heaven.
•His hair has magical properties, capable of making copies of himself or transforming into various weapons, animals and other things.
•He is one of the immortal characters, the others being Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing and so on.
•His weapon is the Ruyi Jingu Bang / Ding Hai Shen Zhen (golden cudgel) which weighs around 7360 kg
•He has Jin Jing Huo Yan (True sight), he can distinguish humans and demons.
•He has the Jin Gang Bu Huai Zhi Shen.
•Knows the 72 Earthly transformations.
•His hair has magical properties, which allows him to summon clones of himself, and/or into various weapons, animals, and other objects.
Appearance:
•"Though you have rather a base sort of body, you look like one of the rhesus monkeys that eat pine seeds." (the Patriarch / Subhuti)
•"You don't even stand four feet from the ground, you're still in your twenties." (Demon King of Confusion)
•Has 84k hairs on his body
Sun Wukong is portrayed by Zhang Jinlai, Wu Yue
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 Emptiness.
Aug 15, 2023 · Anthony Stacchi’s rollicking CG-animated fantasy inspired by ‘Journey to the West’ features a voice cast that includes Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Stephanie Hsu and BD Wong.
Sep 23, 2013 · One of the most famous primate characters in world literature appears in the great Chinese classic Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592 CE). The story follows the adventures of Sun Wukong (孫悟空, a.k.a. “Monkey”) (fig. 1), an immortal rhesus macaque demon, who gains extraordinary power via spiritual cultivation and rebels ...
