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Six-Eared Macaque
The Six-Eared Macaque () is a major antagonist and one of the most powerful characters in Wu Cheng'en's fantasy novel ''Journey to the West'', best remembered for closely impersonating Sun Wukong (Monkey King). In ''Journey to the West'' The Six-Eared Macaque—and not to be mistaken for the Macaque King (), one of the same Seven Sages () Fraternity of Sworn Brothers, that Sun Wukong is a member of—is, according to the Buddha, one of the four spiritual primates that do not belong to any of the ten categories that all beings in the universe are classified under. The other three are the Intelligent Stone Monkey (), Red-Buttock Baboon (), and Interconnected-Arm Gibbon. Buddha also says that the Six-Eared Macaque is "near-omniscient" (thanks to his six ears eavesdropping upon many tidbits of information around him far and wide), "knowledgeable of past and future" and "comprehensive of all things". As he and Sun Wukong are both spiritual primates, their powers and abilities are on pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Wukong
The Monkey King, also known as Sun Wukong ( zh, t=孫悟空, s=孙悟空, first=t) in Mandarin Chinese, is a legendary mythical figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel ''Journey to the West'' ( zh, t=西遊記, s=西游记, first=t) and many later stories and adaptations. In ''Journey to the West'', Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. After five hundred years, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) and two other disciples on a journey to get back Buddhist sutras from the West (India), where Buddha and his followers dwell. Sun Wukong possesses many abilities. He has amazing strength and is able to support the weight of two heaven mountains on his shoulders while running "with the speed of a meteor". He is extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 km, 34,000 mi) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey Mind
Monkey mind or mind monkey, from the Chinese language, Chinese compound ''xīnyuán'' and the Sino-Japanese vocabulary, Sino-Japanese compound ''shin'en'' 心猿 [lit. "heart-/mind-monkey"], is a Buddhist term meaning "unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable". In addition to Buddhist writings, including Chan or Zen, Consciousness-only, Pure Land, and Shingon, this "mind-monkey" psychological metaphor was adopted in Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, poetry, drama, and literature. "Monkey-mind" occurs in two reversible Chengyu, four-character idioms with ''yima'' or ''iba'' 意馬 [lit. "thought-/will-horse"], most frequently used in Chinese ''xinyuanyima'' 心猿意馬 and Japanese ''ibashin'en'' 意馬心猿. The "Monkey King" Sun Wukong in the ''Journey to the West'' personifies the monkey mind. Note that much of the following summarizes Carr. Linguistic and cultural background "Mind-monkey" 心猿 is an exemplary animal m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkeys And Apes In Chinese Mythology
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomplete Paraphyly, paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms ''monkeys'' and ''simians'' synonyms in regards to their scope. In 1812, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy grouped the Ape, apes and the Cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", ("''singes de l'Ancien Monde''" in French language, French). The extant sister of the Catarrhini in the monkey ("singes") group is the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys). Some nine million years before the divergence between the Cercopithecidae and the apes, the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South America likely by ocean. Apes are thus de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
