one of the most famous legends of
ancient china is that of the monkey king
or sun wukong known in china as the main
character of the classic novel journey
to the west
the monkey king created chaos in the
skies and not even the heavenly warriors
could defeat him with the help of lord
loud sea and the god erlang shen the
best generals in heaven the monkey king
was finally captured but nothing could
hurt him
not even a knife or an axe could scratch
him
nor was he affected by lightning thunder
or fire
consequently loud sea put the monkey
king in his alchemy oven and went
through a refining process that lasted
49 days
but instead of being burned the monkey
king came out of the furnace stronger
than ever managing to develop a pair of
eyes with which he could see through
things through which others could not
see
not knowing what to do with the monkey
king and seeing that sun wukong will
take his place the jade emperor the
ruler of the skies asked buddha to
defeat him
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the confrontation between the two began
buddha smiled at the monkey king and
said
what a naughty monkey you are you have
no master and you have not gone through
the proper steps of knowledge how dare
you try and take the powers of the jade
emperor
the monkey king replied
i can shapeshift in 72 forms i'm
immortal and i can use the clowns to
travel 28 000 miles in a single leap so
why can't i take the power of the jade
emperor
the answer of buddha was
let's make a deal
if you can get out of my right palm in a
single leap that i will let the jade
emperor give you his power
otherwise you will be imprisoned on
earth for thousands of years
looking at the buddha's palm which was
no larger than 30 centimeters the monkey
king smiled and said quickly
are you sure you can handle it
butter replied
yes
thus the monkey king went to the middle
of the buddha's right palm and felt that
the palm was no bigger than a lotus leaf
he made a leap and continued on until he
saw five giant pillars
he assumed that he had reached the end
of heavens and to prove his success he
urinated at the base of the first pillar
then pulled out a hair and said
change
the hair turned into a huge brush and
wrote the following words on the middle
pole the great sage as high as heaven
has been here
the monkey king came back to the center
of buddha's right palm with another leap
and shouted to buddha
i left and returned
now you should let the jade emperor give
me his power
butter said
oh monkey do you know you're still in my
palm
king monkey said
don't you know that i went to the ends
of the heavens and found five pillars i
left a mark there do you dare to go back
with me to check
but i said to him
i don't need to check look down and you
will see
the monkey king looked and noticed that
a few words were lined up on the middle
finger of buddha's right hand
the great sage as high as heaven has
been here
there was also a strong smell of urine
in the buddha's hand
the monkey king was very surprised and
said
how is it possible
i wrote these words on a pillar that
supports heaven how can it be written on
your finger
no i can't believe that it's impossible
then the monkey king tried to escape
from buddha's hand but buddha closed his
palm and turned his five fingers into a
mountain of the five elements
gold namely the metal
wood
water fire and earth and imprisoned the
monkey king under the mountain where he
remained for five centuries