Sun Wukong the Monkey King
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Sun Wukong (Chinese: 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ûkʰʊ́ŋ]), also known as the Monkey King, is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.[1] In the novel, 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. Five hundred years later, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang riding on the White Dragon Horse and two other disciples, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, on a journey to obtain Buddhist sutras from India, known as the West or Western Paradise, where Buddha and his followers dwell.[2]
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome to citation needed the |
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| 0:26.3 | Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how |
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| 0:32.4 | regent but to do this right I'm also |
| 0:34.0 | gonna need some earthly manifestations first up two men who cannot be trusted with |
| 0:39.0 | prehensile tales Cecil and he you don't even trust me with one of those little grabber or those little hand grabber tools? |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah, smart. |
| 0:47.0 | Smart empathetic. |
| 0:48.0 | I got a pre-ansel. |
| 0:50.0 | I feel like that's something. |
| 0:52.0 | And also joining us tonight, two men who would be happy to take a monkey king if it meant we could stop letting Republicans vote, Tom and Eli. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean if the Republicans vote we get the monkey king that's right yeah exactly |
| 1:06.7 | and of course before we get started I want to take a minute to remind our audience |
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| 1:19.8 | show. |
| 1:20.8 | And with that out of the way, tell us, Cecil plays thing concept phenomenon or event we'll be talking about today |
| 1:26.0 | Today we talk about the monkey king apparently all right and Eli you read the essay. |
| 1:33.0 | Are you ready to pretend towards knowledge? |
| 1:37.0 | I'm ready for your ooze and aze, no illusions. |
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