Reading Notes Week 7: Monkey King Part A

The story of the Monkey King, Sun Wu Kung, is really unique because I find myself relating to the monkey king. The desire to escape death and the anxiety of death is something that affects humans and the quest to defeat it is very similar to the story of the Buddha. In some ways it seems like Sun Wu Kungs desire to defeat death seems almost futile as nothing in the human world can escape death, however, at least to Siddhartha, we can escape death by pursuing enlightenment and virtue? It's very similar to most religious values and I can see where those lines intersect with these stories. I'm excited to read what is going to happen next.

Bibliography:
The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Sun Wu Kung surfing the clouds