This is an abridged version of one of the four great classics of Chinese literature. The work is essentially a fairy tale of the highest order.The book is a picaresque with the main story being that a Buddhist priest is travelling to India to bring back to China some religious texts. He is accompa...
These characters and stories will be familiar to anyone who watched the Monkey Magic series back in the '70s.The first part shows how Monkey became a king, learnt his magic powers, got his staff and ended up imprisoned in a mountain by Buddha.Then the priest Tripitaka comes along on his mission to g...
These characters and stories will be familiar to anyone who watched the Monkey Magic series back in the '70s.The first part shows how Monkey became a king, learnt his magic powers, got his staff and ended up imprisoned in a mountain by Buddha.Then the priest Tripitaka comes along on his mission to g...
Read it in Chinese many years ago.
That's one of the most fantastic Chinese journey-related stories. Recommend it to all of you!
I'm just stalking Maija's shelves right now. So...I didn't know this existed.
In the Táng dynasty, a monk named Xuánzàng set off alone, under a political cloud, to seek Buddhist scriptures in India. Seventeen years later, at the end of an arduous, successful journey, he returned to a hero's welcome and spent the last years of his life translating and popularizing the scriptur...
I read this book before spending the holidays with my parents. This book is billed as the Chinese version of The Odyssey. I remember my parents talking about different stories from the epic A Journey to the West when I was younger. This version is just a portion of that long classic covering the ...
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