Almost every Chinese New Year, there will be a new Journey to the West (西游记) movie launch. This year, it features one of Hong Kong popular actor/singer Aaron Kwok as the Monkey King who together with Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing and a white horse (dragon prince), escorted Master Hsuan Tsang on his journey from China to India for Buddhist Scriptures. Since young, I enjoy watching mainland production Journey to the West drama/movies. In the show, I learned many values and Buddha's teaching and how they overcame the many trials and tribulations to achieve the Buddhist scriptures.
The truth is Master Hsuan Tsang (602- 664) did spend seventeen-year to India for the Buddhist scriptures during the Tang Dynasty which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions.The Chinese novel Journey to the West, written by Wu Cheng'en during the Ming dynasty, around nine hundred years after Hsuan Tsang's death. This novel has 100 chapters so there are still many movies possibilities.
Tripiñaka Master Hsuan Tsang, translated many Buddhist sutras from Sanskrit into Chinese in
the Tang Dynasty at Ta Hsing Shan Monastery with the aid of more than one
thousand bhikùus and over two thousand laymen. Ta Hsing Shan was not a small
place. From the Abbot’s room to the front gate was a distance of over three
miles and the monk in charge of opening and shutting the front gate usually
rode a horse in order to cover the distance in a reasonable length of time.
Being so large, the monastery easily accommodated the three to four thousand
people involved in the work of translation. (from
During the year the Great Prajnà Sutra was translated,
the peach trees blossomed six times. That auspicious occurrence testified to the
importance of the Prajnà Sutra. It is also widely known that the flower
spirits and the grass and tree spirits all came to protect the wonderful Dharma
assembly
To read more, you can click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West.
Master Hsuan Tsang (602- 664) Tang Dynasty
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Journey to the West. Mandarin version.
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