The name Sun Wukong was given by the Patriarch Bodhi. It was written in the second chapter of "Journey to the West": Hongmeng first established the original nameless, breaking the stubbornness of the world. Wukong: Patriarch Bodhi took a name from the Monkey King. The surname is "Hong". The character "Hong" comes next to an animal, which is the ancient moon. The ancient means old, the moon means yin, and the old yin cannot be transformed into nurturing, so we teach him to have a surname of Xi. , so the surname is Sun.
There are twelve characters in the Bodhi Patriarch's sect, which are assigned names. The Monkey King is the tenth generation disciple. The vast wisdom, true nature, Haiying, realizes the twelve characters of Yuanjue, ranked as the Monkey King, and when he realizes the characters, gold and water are the nature of vacuum, and he realizes this emptiness.
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Sun Wukong, who has just achieved supernatural powers, first made a fuss in the Dragon Palace to obtain the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and then made a fuss in the underworld to remove the book of life and death. Later, he was recruited by the heaven and granted the title of Bima. temperature. After learning that his position was low, he returned to Huaguo Mountain angrily, and defeated the attacks of King Tota and the Third Prince, forcing the Jade Emperor to confer him the title of Monkey King, build the Monkey King's Palace in Heaven, and manage the Pantaoyuan. Because of his drunkenness, he disrupted the Queen Mother's peach party, stole the golden elixir of the Supreme Lord, and became an indestructible body. By accident, he developed the piercing eyes in the alchemy furnace of the Supreme Lord.
After that, he made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace. Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, four heavenly kings, and twenty-eight constellations surrounded him but could not defeat him. Later, he lost in a bet with Tathagata and was trapped in Tathagata's house. I went to the Five Elements Mountain, which I transformed with my own hands, to repent for more than five hundred years. After receiving enlightenment from Guanyin, he was rescued by Monk Tang. He protected Monk Tang in his quest for Buddhist scriptures from the West. He defeated demons and demons along the way, and was not afraid of hardships and hardships. After ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships, he finally obtained the true scriptures and achieved enlightenment, and was awarded the title of Dou Sheng Sheng. Buddha.
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