$Journey to the West: The Heavenly Court captured Sun Wukong. Why didn’t they ask who his master was?
There’s a detail in Journey to the West that you may not have noticed. When Patriarch Bodhi named Wukong, he said:
“There are twelve characters in my lineage, assigned in order as names. You are a young disciple of the tenth generation.”
Brother Monkey asked!
The Patriarch said: “Guang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Zhen, Ru, Xing, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue.” Your generation’s character is “Wu.” One of the characters in the lineage is “Ru”—the more you think about it, the more unsettling it gets.
There’s a detail in Journey to the West that you may not have noticed. When Patriarch Bodhi named Wukong, he said:
“There are twelve characters in my lineage, assigned in order as names. You are a young disciple of the tenth generation.”
Brother Monkey asked!
The Patriarch said: “Guang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Zhen, Ru, Xing, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue.” Your generation’s character is “Wu.” One of the characters in the lineage is “Ru”—the more you think about it, the more unsettling it gets.
