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Monkey King’s journey is also compared to our own family’s obstacles and their voyage to the West for freedom. His courage, cleverness, determination to live a righteous life, and the ability to face life’s obstacles with a sense of humor. Our parents often use Monkey King as a role model in life. “Journey to the West” is our favorite childhood story and Monkey King is one of our most treasured superhero that we all idolized. In return for completing the dangerous mission, Monkey King received forgiveness for his bad behaviors and was granted Buddhahood for his bravery and service. The mischievous Monkey King was able to defeat all his enemies by playing tricks on them. During their 30,000 miles journey to Buddha’s Western Paradise in India, they encountered demons and monsters at every corner. Monkey King was later released from his imprisonment on the condition that he protects Xuanzang on the dangerous journey to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures in order to end suffering to all human race. Monkey King likes to show off his magical powers to no limit, which caused so much chaos in Heaven that Buddha imprisoned him for eternity. He can freeze things, control wind and fire, and can even survive under the deep ocean. His powers gave him the capabilities to clone himself into 72 different objects.
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Being extremely intelligent, he learned all the major tricks and kung fu from an immortal Taoist master. The story took place during the Tang Dynasty, where a monkey was born from a stone and gained supernatural power though Taoist practices. Monkey King is based on a true story of a famous Chinese monk, Xuanzang, spending over a decade walking to India, the birthplace of Buddhism, to retrieve the Buddhist holy book to translate into Chinese. Monkey King is the main superhero from the most popular Chinese novel 西遊記 “Journey to the West” written by Wu Cheng’en in the late sixteenth century.