Note: Adventure to the East vs Journey to the Wes

Zhao

Hello everyone,

Plot

The four-man, one horse team

Journey to the West is comprised of five central characters (well, more like 4, since the last one isn’t really relevant), a short description of each of them follows.

The nominal main character, Tang Sanzang, through his early biography and the background to his great journey. Dismayed that “the land of the South knows only greed, hedonism, promiscuity, and sins”, the Buddha instructs the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin) to search Tang China for someone to take the Buddhist sutras of “transcendence and persuasion for good will” back to the East. Part of the story here also relates to how Tang Sanzang becomes a monk (as well as revealing his past life as a disciple of the Buddha named “Golden Cicada” (金蟬子)) and comes about being sent on this pilgrimage by Emperor Taizong

A few points to note here:

You can see why Ba Jie and Sha Seng (Sha Wujing) can be tempted into betraying their “brother”, since they were formerly from the Celestial Court, only banished due to mistakes. Therefore it makes sense that they desired to go back to their former glory.

Wukong’s home is called the Flower Fruit Mountain.

Wukong has been trapped under a mountain in the original work, and also in Adventure to the East for five hundred years.

Hopefully that was useful,

Zhao

By the way, those of you that play Overwatch. Go look up the skins for Winston, Roadhog, Reinhardt, and Zenyatta… Classics never die I guess xD