Havoc in Heaven:
Havoc in
Heaven tells the story of the birth of Monkey King and the havoc he made in
heaven.
On the
Mountain of Flowers and Fruits there was a monkey born from the stone who set out to sea in search of the immortals to learn the
way of immortality.
He found an
immortal, from whom he learned amazing skills,
including going to the heaven and the earth and changing into 72 forms. His
master named him Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong
caused turbulence in the Dragon Palace of the East Sea and took the golden
cudgel away as his own weapon. He also intruded into the Palace of the
Underworld and caused trouble there. When the Heavenly Emperor sent troops to
fight him, he made havoc in heaven. At last, Buddha from the west subdued him
and trapped him under the Wuxing Mountain.
The Pilgrimage for Buddhist
Scriptures:
The
Pilgrimage for Buddhist Scriptures, Three Battles with the White Bone Demon, The Flaming Mountains, The Real and Fake Monkey King and The
Leiyin Temple.
Pilgrimage
for Buddhist Scriptures tells the story of Monk Tang taking Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha as his disciples and going on the journey to the west
with them.
Buddha in the
west (India) has Buddhist scriptures which encourage people to do good deeds,
so the Tang emperor sent Xuanzang to fetch the
scriptures. On his journey, Xuanzang saved Sun Wukong from the Wuxing Mountain,
who then became his disciple and agreed to escort him to fetch the scriptures.
The Goddess of Mercy put a golden hoop on Sun Wukong’s
head and taught Monk Tang an incantation of tightening the golden hoop.
Whenever the incantation was recited, Sun Wukong felt
a terrible headache, which forced him to be obedient. Later Monk Tang met his
other disciples, the White Dragon Horse, Zhu Bajie
and Monk Sha, one after another. Together they
escorted Monk Tang to the west.