{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Sun Wukong the Monkey King","description":"Sun Wukong (Chinese: \u5b6b\u609f\u7a7a, Mandarin pronunciation: [sw\u0259\u0301n u\u0302k\u02b0\u028a\u0301\u014b]), 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] ","author_name":"Citation Needed","author_url":"http:\/\/citationpod.com","html":"