This week we meet one of the least mentioned members of our party, Xuanzang’s horse. I think it’s easy to forget that he’s no ordinary horse even though Guanyin herself…
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This week, Tripitaka, aka Xuanzang, and Monkey King, newly named Sun Pilgrim, meet for the first time. Wukong gets all the gear that you typically see him depicted wearing in…
If you thought our pronunciations were bad before, wait until you get to this chapter. It’s funky words all over the place! This chapter opens with a poem about enlightenment.…
This chapter starts with a public execution and ends with a banquet. While the two might seem distasteful when combined for modern sensibilities, ancient peoples didn’t feel this way. Ancient…
The stealing of the Peaches of Immortality is another favorite theme explored by many artists throughout Chinese history. While we tend to associate monkeys with bananas, in China, monkeys are…
What do Sun Wukong’s teacher Subodhi, Tai Chi, medicine, gunpowder, and Isaac Newton have in common? They were all once part of a field of study that is one of…