Who is the Monkey King's master?

Learning art is the founder of Bodhi, and learning from the scriptures is the Tang Priest.

First, the bodhi founder

Bodhi, the founder of The Journey to the West, took the Monkey King as an apprentice and taught him seventy-two kinds of changes and somersaults, but Bodhi asked the Monkey King not to mention his master after his debut.

Journey to the West, the founder of Bodhi, the name of the integration of Buddhism and Taoism, Taoist temperament and Confucianism, is a master image who is proficient in Taoism, Buddhism and a hundred schools of thought contend. It also coincides with the trend of thought of the integration of the three religions at that time. Both "Lingtai Square Inch" and "Three Stars with the Moon" have entrusted the author with the idea of the integration of the three religions.

Second, Tang Priest

Tang Priest, also known as Tang Sanzang, is a character in The Journey to the West, one of China's four classical novels. His previous life was Jin, the second disciple of the Tathagata, and his prototype was Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang was born in Luoyang, Henan Province today. His common name is "Chen Yi" and his legal name is "Xuanzang". He was honored as "Master Sanzang" and later called "Tang Priest".

As early as in the Dunhuang frescoes in Xixia period, there was a story about Tang Priest learning from the scriptures. Tang Priest and the Monkey King, who was similar to a monkey, held a white horse in their hands. Later, Journey to the West was formed through constant deduction.

Extended data

The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological figures in China, which comes from the four classical novels The Journey to the West. Born in Dongsheng, China, he was born from the immortal stone. He led a group of monkeys into water curtain cave and became the Monkey King, who was honored as the "Monkey King". After worshipping Bodhi as a teacher, Qian Shan was named the Monkey King, and learned the superb spells of the earth demon, such as seventy-two changes, somersault cloud and immortality.

The Monkey King, whose magical powers are just emerging, first made a scene in the Dragon Palace to get the golden hoop, and then made a scene in the underworld to check the life and death books. Later, he was favored by heaven and was named Bi Marvin. After learning of his low status, he angrily returned to Huaguoshan, defeated the crusade of King Tota and the three princes, and forced the Jade Emperor to make him the Great Sage of Qitian and establish the Great Sage of Qitian in the Heaven.

Manage the flat peach garden in an orderly way. Because of drunkenness, I disturbed the flat peach banquet of the queen mother, stole the elixir of the old gentleman, and became an indestructible body. By mistake, she was turned into an alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun. Later, it caused chaos in the heavenly palace. Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings and twenty-eight stars can't beat them. Later, he lost a bet with the Tathagata, and was crushed by the Five Elements Mountain (renamed Liangjie Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) abandoned by the Tathagata, and repented for more than 500 years.

After being enlightened by Guanyin, he was rescued by Tang Priest. Known as a monk, he protected the Tang Priest from learning Buddhist scriptures in the West, exorcised demons all the way, did not fear difficulties and hardships, and finally got the true scriptures after 81 difficulties, and was named anti-Buddha.

The Monkey King is smart, lively, loyal and hateful, and represents wit and courage in folk culture. The legend of westward journey began to appear in the Tang Dynasty and continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West, the representative of these legends, appeared. In these folk myths of past dynasties, the Monkey King was regarded as a god by China people.

References:

The Monkey King-Baidu encyclopedia

Tang Yan-Baidu encyclopedia

Founder of Bodhi-Baidu Encyclopedia