To repent for his arrogance, Sun Wukong offers the Buddha to guard the monk Tang Sanzang’s pilgrimage. Expecting some troublemaking, the Buddha gifts the monk an irremovable circlet; with a special sutra, it can tighten around Sun Wukong’s head!
Y'know what with how effective of a teacher Patriarch Puti proved to be, it’s remarkable Sun Wukong didn’t end up running into any of his old classmates during the pilgrimage
Handsome Asian Dicky Cheung played the Monkey King Sun Wukong in the 1990s TVB adaptation of Journey to the West. Everyone I knew used to watch it and then we’d go to school and pretend to be Sun Wukong using the class mop.
The Monkey King is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.
