After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from the West (India) where Buddha and his followers reside. In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. The Monkey King’s origins predate the novel and can be traced back to the Song dynasty. The Monkey King, known as Sun Wukong in Chinese, is a legendary figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West ( 西游记/ 西遊記) and many later stories and adaptations. This is what Wikipedia has to say about the original Monkey King, a Chinese deity: Starring Chai Hansen Luciane Buchanan Josh Thomson Emilie Cocquerel Written by Jacquelin Perske Craig Irvin Samantha Strauss Based on Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
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