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Journey to the West Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, written by Wu Cheng'en.
This immortal masterpiece, composed during the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth century, tells the story of a Buddhist monk named Tang Sanzang who, commissioned by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (Li Shimin), travels from China to India in search of sacred scriptures under the escort of his three disciples — Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing.
Far more than a fantasy adventure, it is a rich allegorical tapestry that weaves together Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, offering a panoramic portrait of traditional Chinese thought and culture.

Contents

Chapter 1 The Divine Root Conceives and the Source Streams Forth; The Mind Is Cultivated and the Great Way Is Born
Chapter 2 Wukong Thoroughly Awakens to the Wondrous Truth of Bodhi; He Breaks the Demon and Returns to His Origin, Merging with the Primal Spirit
Chapter 3 The Four Seas and a Thousand Mountains All Submit; The Ninefold Darkness and the Ten Categories Strike Out His Name
Chapter 4 The Title of Keeper of Heaven's Horses Cannot Content His Heart; The Name of Great Sage Equal to Heaven Leaves His Mind Unstilled
Chapter 5 Havoc in the Garden of Peaches—The Great Sage Steals the Elixir; Rebellion in the Palace of Heaven—The Gods Unite to Catch the Monster
Chapter 6 Guanyin Comes to the Feast and Asks the Reason; The Little Sage Shows His Might and Subdues the Great Sage
Chapter 7 The Great Sage Escapes from the Furnace of Eight Trigrams; The Mind-Ape Is Settled Beneath the Mountain of Five Elements
Chapter 8 Our Buddha Creates the Scriptures to Transmit Ultimate Bliss; Guanyin Receives the Command and Goes to Chang'an
Chapter 9 Chen Guangrui Meets Disaster Traveling to His Post; The River-Float Monk Avenges His Father and Repays His Origins
Chapter 10 The Old Dragon King's Clumsy Scheme Breaks Heaven's Code; Prime Minister Wei Leaves a Letter Entrusted to the Underworld Clerks
Chapter 11 The Taizong Emperor Tours the Underworld and Returns to Life; Liu Quan Presents Melons and Is Rewedded to His Wife
Chapter 12 The King of Tang Holds the Great Mass in Perfect Sincerity; Guanyin Displays Her True Form and Converts the Golden Cicada
Chapter 13 At the Tiger's Den the Gold Star Relieves Peril; At Double Fork Ridge Liu Boqin Detains the Monk
Chapter 14 The Mind-Monkey Returns to the Right; The Six Robbers Vanish Without a Trace
Chapter 15 At Serpent-Coil Mountain the Gods Give Secret Aid; At Eagle Sorrow Ravine the Willful Horse Is Reined In
Chapter 16 The Monks of the Guanyin Monastery Plot for a Treasure; A Monster of Black Wind Mountain Steals the Cassock
Chapter 17 Sun Pilgrim Wreaks Havoc on Black Wind Mountain; Guanshiyin Subdues the Black Bear Spirit
Chapter 18 At the Guanyin Monastery Tang Sanzang Escapes His Trouble; At Gao Village the Great Sage Subdues a Demon
Chapter 19 In the Cloud Pathway Cave Wukong Takes in Bajie; On Mount Futu Xuanzang Receives the Heart Sutra
Chapter 20 On Yellow Wind Ridge Tang Sanzang Meets with Trouble; Halfway up the Mountain Bajie Vies to Lead
Chapter 21 The Dharma Protector Sets Up a Manor to Shelter the Great Sage; On Sumeru, Lingji Subdues the Wind Demon
Chapter 22 Bajie Fights a Great Battle at the Flowing Sands River; Muzha, Obeying the Dharma, Wins Over Wujing
Chapter 23 Sanzang Does Not Forget His Roots; Four Sages Test the Meditation Mind
Chapter 24 The Great Immortal of Longevity Mountain Entertains an Old Friend; In Wuzhuang Temple the Pilgrim Steals the Ginseng Fruit
Chapter 25 The Immortal Zhenyuan Pursues and Captures the Scripture-Seeking Monks; Pilgrim Sun Wreaks Havoc in Wuzhuang Temple
Chapter 26 Sun Wukong Seeks a Prescription on the Three Islands; Guanyin's Sweet Dew Restores the Tree to Life
Chapter 27 The Corpse Demon Thrice Plays Her Trick on Tang Sanzang; The Holy Monk in Wrath Banishes the Handsome Monkey King
Chapter 28 On the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit the Host of Demons Gather in Brotherhood; In the Black Pine Forest Sanzang Meets a Demon
Chapter 29 Freed from Peril, the River-Floated Monk Reaches a Foreign Kingdom; Entrusted with the King's Favor, Bajie Returns to the Mountain Forests
Chapter 30 The Wicked Demon Invades the True Teaching; The Horse of the Will Recalls the Ape of the Mind
Chapter 31 Zhu Bajie Righteously Provokes the Monkey King; Pilgrim Sun Subdues the Demon by Cunning
Chapter 32 On Flat-Top Mountain the Duty God Delivers a Warning; In Lotus Cave the Wood-Mother Meets Disaster
Chapter 33 The Heterodox Way Bewilders the True Nature; The Primal Spirit Comes to Aid the Original Mind
Chapter 34 The Demon King by Cunning Snares the Mind-Ape; The Great Sage by Nimble Trickery Steals the Treasures
Chapter 35 The Heterodox Way Flouts Its Might Against the True Nature; The Mind-Ape Wins the Treasures and Subdues the Evil Demons
Chapter 36 The Mind-Monkey Set Right, All Ties Are Subdued; Heterodox Ways Are Split Apart, and the Moon Shines Bright
Chapter 37 The Ghost King Pays a Night Visit to Tang Sanzang; Wukong's Divine Transformations Lead In a Child
Chapter 38 The Child Questions His Mother and Learns False from True; Metal and Wood Probe the Mystery and See Real from Counterfeit
Chapter 39 One Grain of Golden Elixir Is Won from Heaven; a True King Dead Three Years Is Born Again into the World
Chapter 40 The Infant at Play Throws the Chan Mind into Disorder; Ape and Horse Return with Blades, and the Wood-Mother Stands Empty
Chapter 41 The Mind-Ape Meets Defeat by Fire; The Wood-Mother Is Captured by the Demon
Chapter 42 The Great Sage Pays Devout Visit to the Southern Sea; Guanyin, Merciful and Kind, Binds the Red Boy
Chapter 43 The Black River Demon Seizes the Monk and Bears Him Away; The Western Sea Dragon Prince Captures the Alligator and Brings Him Back
Chapter 44 The Dharma Body Comes to Chechi and Encounters the Powers; The Righteous Mind Passes the Spine-Ridge Gate of Evil
Chapter 45 At the Three Pure Ones Temple, the Great Sage Leaves His Name; In the Kingdom of Chechi, the Monkey King Shows His Power
Chapter 46 Heresy Shows Its Strength to Bullie the True Law; the Mind-Ape Reveals Its Sainthood and Destroys the Demons
Chapter 47 The Holy Monk Is Stopped at Night by the Heaven-Reaching Waters; Metal and Wood Show Mercy and Save the Little Children
Chapter 48 A Demon Plays with Cold Winds and Whirling Snow; the Monk, Longing to Worship the Buddha, Treads the Layered Ice
Chapter 49 Sanzang Meets Disaster and Sinks into the Water Mansion; Guanyin Comes to the Rescue and Reveals the Fish Basket
Chapter 50 The Heart Is Disturbed and the Nature Follows, Because of Desire and Lust; The Spirit Grows Dim and the Mind Is Moved, and They Meet the Demon Chief
Chapter 51 The Mind-Monkey Spends a Thousand Plans in Vain; Water and Fire Prove Powerless to Smelt the Demon
Chapter 52 Wukong Wreaks Havoc in Jindou Cave; The Tathagata Hints at the Master of the Creature
Chapter 53 The Chan Master Swallows a Meal and Conceives a Demon Pregnancy; The Yellow Dame Draws Water to Dissolve the Wicked Embryo
Chapter 54 Dharma Nature Comes West and Encounters the Women's Kingdom; The Mind-Monkey Lays His Plan to Escape the Painted World
Chapter 55 The Demon of Lust Sports Wantonly with Tang Sanzang; Upright Nature in Cultivation Keeps the Body Undefiled
Chapter 56 In Wild Fury He Kills the Bandits; Blind to the Way, He Lets Loose the Mind-Ape
Chapter 57 The True Pilgrim Pours Out His Grief on Mount Potalaka; the False Monkey King Copies Out the Travel Permit in the Water Curtain Cave
Chapter 58 Two Minds Throw the Great Cosmos into Chaos; One Body Cannot Achieve True Extinction
Chapter 59 The Tang Monk's Road Is Blocked by the Flaming Mountain; The Pilgrim Sun Borrows the Plantain Fan for the First Time
Chapter 60 The Bull Demon King Calls Off the Battle to Attend a Grand Feast; The Pilgrim Sun Borrows the Plantain Fan for the Second Time
Chapter 61 Zhu Bajie Lends His Strength and the Demon King Is Defeated; the Pilgrim Sun Borrows the Plantain Fan for the Third Time
Chapter 62 Grime Is Scoured and the Heart Washed Clean by Sweeping the Pagoda; the Demon Is Bound and Turned to the Right—There Lies Self-Cultivation
Chapter 63 The Two Monks Rouse the Monsters and Storm the Dragon Palace; A Host of Sages Destroy the Fiend and Recover the Treasure
Chapter 64 On Bramble Ridge Wuneng Exerts His Strength; At the Muxian Hermitage Sanzang Discusses Poetry
Chapter 65 The Demon Counterfeits the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery; All Four of the Party Meet with a Great Calamity
Chapter 66 The Gods Suffer the Demon's Venomous Hand; Maitreya Binds the Monster
Chapter 67 The Deliverance of Tuoluo Steadies the Chan Nature; Emerging from the Filth, the Mind of the Way Is Cleared
Chapter 68 In the Kingdom of Zhuzi, Tang Sanzang Discourses on a Former Life; The Pilgrim Sun Displays the Skill of a Thrice-Tried Physician
Chapter 69 By Night the Mind-Master Compounds the Medicines; At the Banquet the Monarch Relates the Tale of the Demon
Chapter 70 The Demon's Treasure Spews Smoke, Sand, and Fire; Wukong Schemes to Steal the Purple-Gold Bells
Chapter 71 The Pilgrim under a Borrowed Name Subdues the Monstrous Hou; Guanyin Reveals Her Form and Tames the Demon King
Chapter 72 At the Coiled Silk Cave, Seven Passions Beguile the Original Nature; At the Spring of Washing Away Stain, Bajie Forgets Himself
Chapter 73 Old Grudges Beget a Poisonous Bane; The Mind-Master Meets the Demon, but Happily the Light Is Shattered
Chapter 74 Changgeng Reports How Savage the Demon Chiefs Are; The Pilgrim Displays His Powers of Transformation
Chapter 75 The Mind Monkey Drills Through the Yin-Yang Aperture; The Demon King Returns to the True Great Way
Chapter 76 The Mind-Spirit Resides in Its Dwelling, the Demon Returns to Its Nature; The Wood Mother Together Subdues the Monster's True Form
Chapter 77 The Host of Demons Overcomes the True Nature; All Together They Worship the True Thusness
Chapter 78 The Bhiksu Takes Pity on Children and Dispatches the Dark Spirits; In the Golden Hall the Demon Is Identified and the Way Is Discussed
Chapter 79 Searching the Cave to Seize the Demon, He Meets the Star of Longevity; The True Ruler in Court Rescues the Infants
Chapter 80 The Fair Maiden Nourishes Yang and Seeks a Mate; The Mind-Ape Protects His Master and Knows the Demon
Chapter 81 At Zhenhai Monastery the Mind-Ape Knows the Monster; In the Black Pine Forest the Three Disciples Seek Their Master
Chapter 82 The Fair Maiden Seeks Yang; The Primal Spirit Guards the Way
Chapter 83 The Mind-Ape Recognizes the Demon's True Origin; The Fair Maiden Returns to Her Original Nature
Chapter 84 The Ordeal of the Dharma-Destroying Kingdom, Through Bodhisattva's Grace, Completes the Great Awakening; The Dharma-King Turns Orthodox, Restored to His Natural State
Chapter 85 The Mind-Monkey Teases the Wood-Mother; The Demon Lord Plots to Swallow the Chan
Chapter 86 The Wood Mother Lends His Might to Punish the Monster; The Metal Lord Works His Magic to Destroy the Fiends
Chapter 87 Fengxian County Offends Heaven and the Rain Is Barred; The Great Sage Sun Preaches Goodness and Sends Down Sweet Rain
Chapter 88 Chan Comes to Yuhua and a Dharma Assembly Is Held; The Mind-Monkey and the Wood-Mother Take On Disciples
Chapter 89 The Yellow Lion Spirit Vainly Holds a Rake Banquet; Metal, Wood, and Earth Plot Havoc on Leopard Head Mountain
Chapter 90 Master and Lion, Teaching and Learning, Return Together to the One; The Stolen Way, Entangled with Zen, Stills the Nine Numinosities
Chapter 91 On the Night of the Full Moon They View the Lanterns in the Prefecture of Jinping; In the Cave of Dark Splendor Tang Sanzang Makes a Full Confession
Chapter 92 Three Monks Fight a Great Battle on the Green Dragon Mountain; The Four Star Gods Capture the Rhinoceros Monsters
Chapter 93 In the Garden of the Elder of the Orphans They Ask of Ancient Things and Trace the Cause; In the Kingdom of Tianzhu They Present Themselves at Court and Meet Their Fate
Chapter 94 The Four Monks Feast and Make Merry in the Imperial Garden; A Single Monster Vainly Nurses the Joys of Love and Lust
Chapter 95 The False in the Form of the True: The Jade Rabbit Is Seized; The True Yin Returns to the Right: The Primal Spirit Is Met
Chapter 96 Elder Kou Joyfully Entertains the Eminent Monks; The Elder of Tang Does Not Covet Wealth and Rank
Chapter 97 Repaying Their Benefactor with Gold Brings the Demons' Poison; The Sage Appears to the Departed Soul and Saves the Root of the Good
Chapter 98 The Ape Is Tamed and the Horse Gentle, and the Shell Is Cast Off; Merit Achieved and Practice Complete, the True Thusness Is Seen
Chapter 99 Nine Nines Complete, the Demons Are Wiped Away; Three Threes Fulfilled, the Way Returns to Its Root
Chapter 100 By the Straight Road They Return to the Eastern Land; The Five Sages Attain Truth