Nice video! I remember how rich and prosper India was before they got colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor. I also your Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong. It would be interesting because I did some research on it. After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting. The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol. Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons. Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future. Marvel Comics/Founded 1939, New York, NY Journey to the West. Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century Author Wu Cheng'en Publication date c. 1592 (print) Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now. Abilities 72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies. Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire. Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability. Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies. Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment. Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock. Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap. Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff. Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself. Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities. Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms. Wukong Abilities mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng More about Wukong mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/ Journey to the West en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time. Now I remember Wukong is a stone monkey and he can transformed into one, just the The thing from fantastic four. He can also turn into a giant ape. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey. Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents. Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men.
Gao Xingjian (高行健) once wrote: "Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone"
The Indians and Chinese share so much spiritually. It’s such a tragedy that Indians and Chinese are led to distrust each other and show hostility. As an Indian, let’s come together, and be one. Peace and blessings to all watching this. Namo Buddhaya 🙏
All thanks to British occupation, divide et empera , divide and rules politics. The Brits even use the caste system, the social system of the old India, change it to segregation system to divide India, and using other religion too (to divide India).
Yes, China and India live together for thousand of years as neighbor. Many nation came and gone. Thousand years from now, they are still neighbors. Don't let politic and greeds lead you astray!
Nepal-India-China are three stars of Buddhism. the country where Lord Buddha was born, where he attained Buddhahood and where Buddhism gained height. Let love and peace prevail.
A Great Video... As an Indian I must say, Learned a lot from this.... An important part of the shared history between the two great civilisations of asia...
Indian here. The name Sindh comes from Sindhu, the Indian name of the river Indus. The word Hindu also originates from Sindhu. Thank you for covering Indian history. History of Asia is incomplete without the history of one of the oldest Asian & world civilisation..
Fascinating series! Minor correction: it is "Nalanda Mahavihara", "Maha" = Great, "Vihara" = Monastery (which also naturally served as centers of learning)
This novel and television drama was so popular in east and south east Asia. It is really sad that, we Indians never heard of this story here and couldn’t get a chance to enjoy. The wall of ignorance, prejudice and despise marks the relation between India and China instead of mutual understanding and learning. Really sad !
Modern Indias complete identity is based on the Congress gaining independence for India from the British. India whose history is so old our identity could be anything, for us to have chosen this is a slap in the face of our ancestors. Instead of hating the Brits, a large number of us see them as liberators from the foreign religion of peace (cough cough - I don't want youtube deleting my comment by criticizing HISLAMB ). Our identity should be an Indian one, and all I read in our stupid text books is anti-western propaganda, this was a very short phase of Indian history, and also not nearly as bad as the genocidal conquest of the HISLAMBs, (Hindu Kush literally means slaughter of the Hindus - Ibn Batuta). Modern India is everything I hate all put into one, the worst of all worlds, for some reason we are too afraid to talk about our Hindu/ Buddhist history so as to not offend the minorities, well you wanna see what the minorities do when they are in the majority, look at any country west of us and tell me how many Zoroastrians you see in Persia today, or Christians in the Levant, Hindus/ Buddhists in Central Asia and Afganisthan or Hindus/ Buddhists in Pakisthan/ Bangladesh/ Indonesia, then tell me if HISLAMB is truly a religion of peace.
Utter nonsense. Gupta period has left huge archaeological record for historians. Stop buying into divisive nationalist narratives. British empire was bad enough in India without inventing imaginary injustices.
As a Longtime Xiyouji (JttW) Fan who's read (& is currently rereading) MOST of the Original 1592 *Xiyouji* [West-Journey-Record] Novel (Yu's Translation) & who has even recently read it's 13th Century Novelette Precursor, *Da Tang Sanzang Qujing Shihua* [Great Tang Sanzang Seeks-Scriptures Poetic-Stories], it was certainly interesting seeing how much was changed from Xuanzang's Historical Account to the Recorded Song Dynasty Folklore (loosely based on said Account) to finally, the Famous Late Ming-Dynasty ShenMo Novel we all know & love...
A fascinating snap shot of religions in place at the time - Buddhism vs Taoism vs Legalism(Confucianism) in China, Manicheanism and Zoroastrianism in Central Asia, Mahayana vs Theravada Buddhism vs various sects of Hinduism in India. The Judaism & Christian Assyrian Church of East of the Silk Road traders we know was across Central Asia is missing, and the discussion/conflict of both the 100 Schools in China and the Jains with other philosophies and religious sects in India seem ignored. But I am sure that was the writer's choice, since none of those were in power with kingdoms anywhere, unlike the ones mentioned in the story. Very good and even handed job of presentation of the monk's story! Kudos!
I love your work and uploads. There isn't enough people talking about these historical events. And I mean ancient china in general, but you do a great job.
Watching stories of such great historical travelers always makes me wonder how many such magnificent journeys never made it into historical pages from peoples across the entire world
As someone from neighborhood of both India and China. Time to stop playing into the western geo political games. We have been here before. We were supposed to be recovering from those era.
The Journey to the West is really famous in Vietnam, and the music at the beginning of the video is really familiar with Vietnamese. Many Vietnamese television media such as VTV, HTV shot the Journey to the West that Lu Xiaolingdong played as Sun Wukong. Well, the opening and ending songs of the series are still famous in Vietnam now, even the ending song has Vietnamese version.
Great relics like the Buddha´s, guarding the land for centuries only to be destroyed in my lifetime. What a shame. But thank you for the story of the real journey to the west! It´s a interesting piece of history in itself and the root of great fantasy.
In Indonesia, Journey to the west is very popular classic that we always called "Sun go kong", it was big hit back then, also the opening was straight up Rapping
Oh my gosh, I can't believe you mentioned "Monkey Magic," that Japanese version of Journey to The West! 🤣 I only discovered it a few months ago on RUclips can't believe the Monk in there is played by a female and the whole production was Japanese. The dub in English is also hilarious!
Journey to the West (Tây du ký in Vietnamese), The Romance of Three Kingdoms (Tam quốc diễn nghĩa 1996), Justice Pao, Records of Kangxi's Travel Incognito, Liu Yong the Grand Chancellor (宰相劉羅鍋, Zǎixiàng liúluóguo, Tể tướng Lưu gù), The Bronze Teeth (Bản lĩnh Kỷ Hiểu Lam) were famous in Vietnamese, and they are still in the memories of many Vietnamese people, especially young people. Vietnamese people prefer the Journey to the West (1986) than other versions, and its theme songs are more famous than the theme songs of other ones.
That King he promised to spend 3 years with but never did, perhaps that was the inspiration for the turtle that provided Xuanzang and his pilgrims passage across a river, requesting that when they reach their destination to ask the buddha of his fate. Later in the story, when the pilgrims are returning home, they come across the turtle again and he provides them a ride like before. However, when the turtle inquires about the favor, Xuazang completely forgot to ask about his faith and the turtle was so miffed about this that he tossed them out of his back and into the river. Considering the turtle was just a one-bit character that never appeared afterward until the very end, the reader probably forgot about him too.
It'd be great if yall did the interactions of medieval and ancient Africa with China and the Far East. We are well aware of trade connections stretching as far back as, at least, the Tang Dynasty. It'd be a neat, unexplored area of history to touch.
Yep! That was before the rich and prosper India and Africa being colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor. The guys also talk about Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong. It would be interesting because I did some research on it. After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting. The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol. Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons. Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future. Marvel Comics/Founded 1939, New York, NY Journey to the West. Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century Author Wu Cheng'en Publication date c. 1592 (print) Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now. Abilities 72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies. Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire. Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability. Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies. Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment. Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock. Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap. Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff. Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself. Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities. Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms. Wukong Abilities mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng More about Wukong mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/ Journey to the West en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time. Now I remember Wukong is a stone monkey and he can transformed into one, just the The thing from fantastic four. He can also turn into a giant ape. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey. Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents. Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men.
@@FOLIPE there was no India back then to dominate the Indian Ocean, It was a mosaic of warring kingdoms and states that only occasionaly were dominanted by a pan Indian Empire, and even then it rarely extented fully to the south. The Indian Ocean was a free for all that the Chinese exploited well until the Qing Dynasty.
Good question! I was wondering the same thing when he meet with different kings from different countries. I'm guessing he learned to speak multiple languages. I remember reading that the famous queen Cleopatra speak 8 languages.
Wow! The Tang Priest was awesome in this version. He didn't need help from a monkey demon, pig demon, and sand demon. And he spent a long long time touring the Western Heaven before returning with the scriptures to the great Tang.
Nice video! I remember how rich and prosper India was before they got colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor. I like your Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong. It would be interesting because I did some research on it. After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting. The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol. Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons. Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future. Marvel Comics/Founded 1939, New York, NY Journey to the West. Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century Author Wu Cheng'en Publication date c. 1592 (print) Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now. Abilities 72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies. Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire. Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability. Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies. Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment. Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock. Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap. Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff. Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself. Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities. Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms. Wukong Abilities mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng More about Wukong mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/ Journey to the West en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time. Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents. Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men. He can also turn into a giant. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey. "Sun Wukong is known for his limitless shape-changing powers, capable of taking the form of anything from gods, monsters, and humans to animals, insects, and even inanimate objects like buildings. But his most powerful transformation, that of a cosmic giant, is displayed only three times in the novel." Source journeytothewestresearch.com/2019/01/08/the-monkey-kings-cosmic-body/
The guy who wrote about Sun Wukong was clearly just making stuff up as the plot demanded. Sure was creative. Stop blaming India's problems on the British. They left over 50 years ago. Your government is in cahoots with food corporations. They took away the government-regulated farmers Auction so that farmers would be forced to sell at lower prices to big corporations.
@@benjaminloyd6056 "Anglos caused most of the world's problems" - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister Anglo caused centuries-long notorious global - - Slavery, - Colonialism, - Colonization, - World War I, - World War II, and the list goes on. True, among the five main Anglo nations of Britain, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all but Britain are looted from others. History is written by victors. Western history books hide the shameful dark past crimes so that they can safely put on a mask to hide their hypocritical images and continue to sell their lies and propaganda of - - Democracy, - Freedom, - Human Rights, - Free speech/Free press", etc. Same old lame old Colonialist-turned Capitalist Imperialist trick! UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and some other Western nations are of the same pack of wolves. The UK is the birthplace of wolves. It's all about 'Anglo Western Interests/Hegemony' above all else, by all means, and at all costs. That's what it's all about and the rest is history. Enough said. -Dear Sir or Madam Please don’t ignore the French, Belgians, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and the Germans. They have all contributed to the gross atrocities visited upon mankind by the west. -Plato's Beard
instead of adapting more and more journey to the west adaptation they should make one on the real xuanzang ! and again no one exept me seems to notice that kaala bhairava is erlang shen
Xuanzang's journey took 17 years because he stopped at different schools to learn the language. There is a network of Buddhist learning centres where he could study Buddhism and the language. He also travelled with an entourage. So he probably picked up a few translators on his journey too.
Xuanzang's charisma must have been extraordinary, to have charmed so many kings. I wonder how much of it is due to his physical appearance. In the novel I think he was described as being exceedingly handsome.
Eh, I only recognize the TVB one from 1995. Actually in Water Margin, alot of the Buddhist monk were viewed negatively, like they are being corrupt with being lewd, drinking booze and greedy. Still Flower Priest who was a "Faux" Monk end up being a real Buddhist monk after his death as he lived up to the ideals.
Like in the chapter where Shi Xiu kills the lecherous monk, who was pandering with the wife of his sworn brother Yang Xiong. I can also see connections with Lu zhishen and Ji gong; who both ate meat and drank wine, but showed virtue and benevolence when upholding justice.
I remember the Japanese Anime adaptation of this(Saiyuki:Reload) The journey focus on the titular characters and finding all the heavenly scrolls and prevent the awakening of the Bull Demon/Gyumaoh
What is the relationship between the Journey to the West and the Empresss Wu Zetian? She upgraded/restored the Wild Goose Temple in 704 AD. She was also a Buddhist. What was the relationship between this Empress and Confucianism, particularly Neo-Confucianism?
In our kingdom we worship durga but we call her as Ama Osa. Also such human sacrifice was done but it was to goddess kali another form of durga. Our kingdom was situated in present Bangladesh called Tipra/Tripura. Some say xuanzian might have visited, in some video & info. During Mughal invasion many Muslim was sacrifice in our 14 god temple.
Yeah - Monkey -- and the water Margin were two of the staples Must watch programs as i grew up - pity the bbc is so up its own arse it won't air them for WOKE reasons ..... I have some of the stuff on box set --- and the special effects hold up today (though water margin wise i think Ling Chun (?spelling) Still won't have made up his bloody mind to rebel) -- remember hoo-san-yan(g?) (questionable spelling) ..
Hindus, Buddhists and Jainism are all part of Sanatan Dharma 🕉️. This division was created by Britishers.(in Japan they follow Shinto - Buddhism, which is not that far off from what ancient Indian were doing.)
Buddhism already introduced into Mainland China during West Han Dynasty era which is almost six to eight hundred years before the Tang Dynasty. When the Buddhism came, the traditional Chinese Taoism are having a great interest to study on it instead of seeing it as a foreign threat, and many of the Chinese scholar found the Buddhism thinking are quite match with the Chinese origin philosophy, later on it became the so called Buddha-Tao combination or Buddhism-Confucianism-Taoism Combination (佛道合一/三教合一) which also give a big influences to Japan Korea Vietnam etc until today. So Buddhism might origin from India but it gained it great development and expansion from China.
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Sorry everyone, the third episode of the Sengoku series is taking longer to finish. It will be released next week.
Can't wait! Thank you for the amazing content, and the time and effort you put into making it great.
Nice video!
I remember how rich and prosper India was before they got colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor.
I also your Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong.
It would be interesting because I did some research on it.
After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting.
The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol.
Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons.
Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future.
Marvel Comics/Founded
1939, New York, NY
Journey to the West.
Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century
Author Wu Cheng'en
Publication date c. 1592 (print)
Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now.
Abilities
72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies.
Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire.
Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability.
Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies.
Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment.
Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock.
Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap.
Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff.
Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself.
Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities.
Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms.
Wukong Abilities
mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng
More about Wukong
mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/
Journey to the West
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time.
Now I remember Wukong is a stone monkey and he can transformed into one, just the The thing from fantastic four.
He can also turn into a giant ape. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey.
Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents.
Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men.
Yes... Whenever I see a compilation video, I always think that the new episode must not be ready. Animation is hard. Keep up the good work.
I have a distinct sense of dejavu
I have a distinct sense of dejavu
Gao Xingjian (高行健) once wrote:
"Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone"
Wow, can't tell you how much that quote means to me now. Thank you!
That's deep.
I've been reflecting since I went into self quarantine.
Hi do you have its chinese quote? Thanks
basically same when staring on windows
The Indians and Chinese share so much spiritually. It’s such a tragedy that Indians and Chinese are led to distrust each other and show hostility. As an Indian, let’s come together, and be one. Peace and blessings to all watching this.
Namo Buddhaya 🙏
All thanks to British occupation, divide et empera , divide and rules politics. The Brits even use the caste system, the social system of the old India, change it to segregation system to divide India, and using other religion too (to divide India).
Yes, China and India live together for thousand of years as neighbor. Many nation came and gone. Thousand years from now, they are still neighbors. Don't let politic and greeds lead you astray!
@@ezradja You should also add the Historical Religious Tension between Hindus and Muslims to that list.
Nepal-India-China are three stars of Buddhism. the country where Lord Buddha was born, where he attained Buddhahood and where Buddhism gained height. Let love and peace prevail.
Christian Europe wasn't united, why should they be different?
A Great Video... As an Indian I must say, Learned a lot from this.... An important part of the shared history between the two great civilisations of asia...
Indian here. The name Sindh comes from Sindhu, the Indian name of the river Indus. The word Hindu also originates from Sindhu. Thank you for covering Indian history. History of Asia is incomplete without the history of one of the oldest Asian & world civilisation..
Shindu was called shendu (身毒 : poison of the body) 😭
Crap
China and India, what wonderful civilizations! ❤️❤️
Good wishes from India
The guard who helped him through the final gate must be the person who inspired the hunter who helps Tripithaka up until he finds Sun Wukong, right?
Fascinating series! Minor correction: it is "Nalanda Mahavihara", "Maha" = Great, "Vihara" = Monastery (which also naturally served as centers of learning)
vira means hero
This novel and television drama was so popular in east and south east Asia. It is really sad that, we Indians never heard of this story here and couldn’t get a chance to enjoy. The wall of ignorance, prejudice and despise marks the relation between India and China instead of mutual understanding and learning. Really sad !
Modern Indias complete identity is based on the Congress gaining independence for India from the British. India whose history is so old our identity could be anything, for us to have chosen this is a slap in the face of our ancestors. Instead of hating the Brits, a large number of us see them as liberators from the foreign religion of peace (cough cough - I don't want youtube deleting my comment by criticizing HISLAMB ). Our identity should be an Indian one, and all I read in our stupid text books is anti-western propaganda, this was a very short phase of Indian history, and also not nearly as bad as the genocidal conquest of the HISLAMBs, (Hindu Kush literally means slaughter of the Hindus - Ibn Batuta). Modern India is everything I hate all put into one, the worst of all worlds, for some reason we are too afraid to talk about our Hindu/ Buddhist history so as to not offend the minorities, well you wanna see what the minorities do when they are in the majority, look at any country west of us and tell me how many Zoroastrians you see in Persia today, or Christians in the Levant, Hindus/ Buddhists in Central Asia and Afganisthan or Hindus/ Buddhists in Pakisthan/ Bangladesh/ Indonesia, then tell me if HISLAMB is truly a religion of peace.
My favorite line from the original video was “the real reason he wanted to go was because he was a huge NERD”
Lol😂
I guess you could call him a weabhudd😂
Without Xuanzang the Gupta Empire and Harshavardhans Empire would have been claimed as fiction by the Britishers.
True
True
No, because Gupta Empire and Harsha empire are mentioned within Indian texts itself
@@Koke-f1g so are many others that are considered faction by the westerners. 😂😂
Utter nonsense. Gupta period has left huge archaeological record for historians. Stop buying into divisive nationalist narratives. British empire was bad enough in India without inventing imaginary injustices.
As a Longtime Xiyouji (JttW) Fan who's read (& is currently rereading) MOST of the Original 1592 *Xiyouji* [West-Journey-Record] Novel (Yu's Translation) & who has even recently read it's 13th Century Novelette Precursor, *Da Tang Sanzang Qujing Shihua* [Great Tang Sanzang Seeks-Scriptures Poetic-Stories], it was certainly interesting seeing how much was changed from Xuanzang's Historical Account to the Recorded Song Dynasty Folklore (loosely based on said Account) to finally, the Famous Late Ming-Dynasty ShenMo Novel we all know & love...
Ah yes, the songs, the most remembered part of the story
A fascinating snap shot of religions in place at the time - Buddhism vs Taoism vs Legalism(Confucianism) in China, Manicheanism and Zoroastrianism in Central Asia, Mahayana vs Theravada Buddhism vs various sects of Hinduism in India.
The Judaism & Christian Assyrian Church of East of the Silk Road traders we know was across Central Asia is missing, and the discussion/conflict of both the 100 Schools in China and the Jains with other philosophies and religious sects in India seem ignored. But I am sure that was the writer's choice, since none of those were in power with kingdoms anywhere, unlike the ones mentioned in the story.
Very good and even handed job of presentation of the monk's story! Kudos!
Kings and Generals channel covered in a video about medieval christian sect on central asia not to long ago (before this comment I mean)
I love your work and uploads. There isn't enough people talking about these historical events. And I mean ancient china in general, but you do a great job.
Watching stories of such great historical travelers always makes me wonder how many such magnificent journeys never made it into historical pages from peoples across the entire world
Lot's of ❤️ to all Asian brothers and sisters from India 🇮🇳..... Shared Culture and History 💕
As someone from neighborhood of both India and China. Time to stop playing into the western geo political games. We have been here before. We were supposed to be recovering from those era.
love from nepal. to both India n China. plz dont fall victims to the colonalists.
The Journey to the West is really famous in Vietnam, and the music at the beginning of the video is really familiar with Vietnamese. Many Vietnamese television media such as VTV, HTV shot the Journey to the West that Lu Xiaolingdong played as Sun Wukong. Well, the opening and ending songs of the series are still famous in Vietnam now, even the ending song has Vietnamese version.
Great relics like the Buddha´s, guarding the land for centuries only to be destroyed in my lifetime. What a shame. But thank you for the story of the real journey to the west! It´s a interesting piece of history in itself and the root of great fantasy.
I like Xuanzang's portrayal in the anime Saiyuki. Even though he used a gun he was still awesome.
plus shoot first, ask questions later policy with chain smoking habit, makes him 10x badass
@@ShawnChang6453 He was good at keeping Sun Wukong and the others in line too.
In Indonesia, Journey to the west is very popular classic that we always called "Sun go kong", it was big hit back then, also the opening was straight up Rapping
Played by Dicky Cheung? 🤩
@@Xaiff i think thats the name of the actor
As an American-born Yuet-speaking (Taishanese, to be exact) 90s kid, I familiar with the 1986 CCTV series theme and the 1996 & 1998 TVB series themes.
Same.
The classic song keep running in my head upon reading your post.
So lucky..Maybe he really was choosen by buddha for this divine journey.
Damn good! U got a new subscriber.
me too.
Please do a documentary about Zheng he , he is the undisputed most interesting story of the Ming dynasty
New subscriber here. I’ve been kind of obsessing over Chinese history and culture lately and really enjoying your content. Keep up the great work!
Oh my gosh, I can't believe you mentioned "Monkey Magic," that Japanese version of Journey to The West! 🤣 I only discovered it a few months ago on RUclips can't believe the Monk in there is played by a female and the whole production was Japanese. The dub in English is also hilarious!
Much loved series in the UK in the 70's.
Journey to the West (Tây du ký in Vietnamese), The Romance of Three Kingdoms (Tam quốc diễn nghĩa 1996), Justice Pao, Records of Kangxi's Travel Incognito, Liu Yong the Grand Chancellor (宰相劉羅鍋, Zǎixiàng liúluóguo, Tể tướng Lưu gù), The Bronze Teeth (Bản lĩnh Kỷ Hiểu Lam) were famous in Vietnamese, and they are still in the memories of many Vietnamese people, especially young people. Vietnamese people prefer the Journey to the West (1986) than other versions, and its theme songs are more famous than the theme songs of other ones.
The only version that I watched was 1996 Journey to the West featuring Dicky Cheung
What a tale! Ulysses, Herodotus travel and king Solomon's Treasure combined!
Thanks for the video! Brahmaputra river politics are engaging today, as the global warming era intensifies, Xuanzang is a water diplomat!
This video is a blessing to this platform
That King he promised to spend 3 years with but never did, perhaps that was the inspiration for the turtle that provided Xuanzang and his pilgrims passage across a river, requesting that when they reach their destination to ask the buddha of his fate. Later in the story, when the pilgrims are returning home, they come across the turtle again and he provides them a ride like before. However, when the turtle inquires about the favor, Xuazang completely forgot to ask about his faith and the turtle was so miffed about this that he tossed them out of his back and into the river. Considering the turtle was just a one-bit character that never appeared afterward until the very end, the reader probably forgot about him too.
I heard that’s because the King died; he was defeated by the Tang Emperor
Dude I love your history lessons.
India 🇮🇳 is the origin of Buddhism and birth place of God buddha 🙏✨😍
Budha is not god......he himself non believers of Vedic gods,Vedic rituals
Second one is Nepal
Love how you pronounced Khan(han) correctly! The K is almost silent.
I truly liked this.
Theravada/Hinayana is like the source code 👩💻 of Thai Buddhism ☸️
Is this a coincidence or what, i was just reading "Great Tang Record of Western Regions" yesterday 😄
It'd be great if yall did the interactions of medieval and ancient Africa with China and the Far East. We are well aware of trade connections stretching as far back as, at least, the Tang Dynasty. It'd be a neat, unexplored area of history to touch.
Yep!
That was before the rich and prosper India and Africa being colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor.
The guys also talk about Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong.
It would be interesting because I did some research on it.
After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting.
The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol.
Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons.
Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future.
Marvel Comics/Founded
1939, New York, NY
Journey to the West.
Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century
Author Wu Cheng'en
Publication date c. 1592 (print)
Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now.
Abilities
72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies.
Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire.
Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability.
Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies.
Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment.
Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock.
Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap.
Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff.
Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself.
Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities.
Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms.
Wukong Abilities
mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng
More about Wukong
mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/
Journey to the West
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time.
Now I remember Wukong is a stone monkey and he can transformed into one, just the The thing from fantastic four.
He can also turn into a giant ape. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey.
Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents.
Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men.
I think Indian ocean trade was dominated by the indians and then also the Arabs.
That sounds like BS!
@@FOLIPE there was no India back then to dominate the Indian Ocean, It was a mosaic of warring kingdoms and states that only occasionaly were dominanted by a pan Indian Empire, and even then it rarely extented fully to the south.
The Indian Ocean was a free for all that the Chinese exploited well until the Qing Dynasty.
Can you make a playlist of these types of video?
Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! You filled in the blanks in my own knowledge of both Xuanzhang and Nalanda!
I’m also curious on how did Xuanzang communicate with people spanning such a wide region (as in, what language he used)!
sign language?
He probably hired a translator
Good question!
I was wondering the same thing when he meet with different kings from different countries.
I'm guessing he learned to speak multiple languages.
I remember reading that the famous queen Cleopatra speak 8 languages.
He learnt the languages.
He knows Sanskrit. The language in Buddhist text.
Wow! The Tang Priest was awesome in this version. He didn't need help from a monkey demon, pig demon, and sand demon. And he spent a long long time touring the Western Heaven before returning with the scriptures to the great Tang.
Nice video!
I remember how rich and prosper India was before they got colonized by the British that rob the country of everything and leaving them poor.
I like your Amazon crossover by introducing Wukong.
It would be interesting because I did some research on it.
After reading a lot about Monkey King abilities since Black Myth was introduced, I have notice that a lot of Marvel heroes have similar abilities as Monkey King, from flying on a cloud with a red cape to shape-shifting.
The thing is that when monkey king use his fiery eyes, he get slightly burn. It look more realistic, but when Cyclop from X-men use his fire beams, it could cut through building and vehicle without burning out his eye balls. Now I know that sounds so bs and unrealistic lol.
Speaking of mutants. It's basically other word for demons. Wukong and his companions was demonic that helped human to fight other demons.
Then we have the Wukong ride, the flying cicada, a cloud that pretty much function as his personal jet vs Green Goblin in Spiderman, Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four and the hovering board from Back to the future.
Marvel Comics/Founded
1939, New York, NY
Journey to the West.
Earliest known edition of the book from the 16th century
Author Wu Cheng'en
Publication date c. 1592 (print)
Here are some Wukong cool abilities that I didn't know much about until now.
Abilities
72 Bian/"72 Transformations": Allows him to shapeshift into almost any form-however, he is never able to transform his tail. He can also transform each of the 84,000 hairs on his body into another form, animate or inanimate, and often bites the hairs into pieces to create even more copies.
Bi Huo Jue/"Fire Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive fire.
Bi Shui Jue/"Water Avoidance Charm": Allows him to survive deep water; however, he is unable to fight while using this ability.
Body Freezing Spell: Allows him to immobilize enemies.
Huǒyǎn-jīnjīng(火眼金睛)/"fiery-eyes golden-gaze": Allows him to identify evil no matter what form it takes; however, it also causes smoke to sting his eyes. Wùkōng acquired this ability after Lao Tzu traps Wùkōng in his cauldron for 49 days, attempting to distill him as punishment.
Jie Suo Fa/"Lock-Breaking Spell": Allows him to point a finger or his staff and open any lock.
Jīndǒuyún/"cloud-somersault" or “cloud trapeze”: Allows him to cover 108,000 li (54,000 km, 33,554 mi) in a single leap.
Protective Circle: Allows him to erect an impassible barrier by drawing a circle on the ground with his staff.
Shen Wai Shen Fa/"Body Outside of Body": Specifically refers to his ability to transform his hairs into fighting clones of himself.
Summoning: Allows him to summon local deities.
Wind: Allows him to summon strong winds and storms.
Wukong Abilities
mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Sūn_Wùkōng
More about Wukong
mythopedia.com/chinese-mythology/gods/sun-wukong/
Journey to the West
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
The writer for Wukong was way ahead of it time.
Wolverine has facial feature as Wukong and both able to sniff out their enemy scents.
Wukong can control winds and storms, just like Storm from X-men.
He can also turn into a giant. You can compare that to Ant man, the hulk and Caesar from Planet of the apes for being the first talking monkey.
"Sun Wukong is known for his limitless shape-changing powers, capable of taking the form of anything from gods, monsters, and humans to animals, insects, and even inanimate objects like buildings. But his most powerful transformation, that of a cosmic giant, is displayed only three times in the novel."
Source
journeytothewestresearch.com/2019/01/08/the-monkey-kings-cosmic-body/
Without British there is no India. It was Britain that creates India.
@@PomegranateChocolate Nope.
When India was the Richest Country on Earth [The Importance of India MOOC 2.2.3]
ruclips.net/video/TL6Y9f6aQCQ/видео.html
The guy who wrote about Sun Wukong was clearly just making stuff up as the plot demanded. Sure was creative.
Stop blaming India's problems on the British. They left over 50 years ago. Your government is in cahoots with food corporations. They took away the government-regulated farmers Auction so that farmers would be forced to sell at lower prices to big corporations.
@@benjaminloyd6056
"Anglos caused most of the world's problems"
- David Cameron, former British Prime Minister
Anglo caused centuries-long notorious global -
- Slavery,
- Colonialism,
- Colonization,
- World War I,
- World War II, and the list goes on.
True, among the five main Anglo nations of Britain, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all but Britain are looted from others.
History is written by victors. Western history books hide the shameful dark past crimes so that they can safely put on a mask to hide their hypocritical images and continue to sell their lies and propaganda of -
- Democracy,
- Freedom,
- Human Rights,
- Free speech/Free press", etc. Same old lame old Colonialist-turned Capitalist Imperialist trick!
UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and some other Western nations are of the same pack of wolves. The UK is the birthplace of wolves.
It's all about 'Anglo Western Interests/Hegemony' above all else, by all means, and at all costs. That's what it's all about and the rest is history. Enough said.
-Dear Sir or Madam
Please don’t ignore the French, Belgians, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and the Germans. They have all contributed to the gross atrocities visited upon mankind by the west.
-Plato's Beard
instead of adapting more and more journey to the west adaptation they should make one on the real xuanzang ! and again no one exept me seems to notice that kaala bhairava is erlang shen
Not a series but there is a film version ruclips.net/video/ulDzLjz0wdw/видео.html
@@MorbidEel wow that exactly what i wanted ! thanks !
how they communicate? no language barrier?
Xuanzang's journey took 17 years because he stopped at different schools to learn the language. There is a network of Buddhist learning centres where he could study Buddhism and the language. He also travelled with an entourage. So he probably picked up a few translators on his journey too.
He picked up a certain Indian language. In his rest life back in China, he devoted in translating the scripts.
Great video and great point about seeing your own culture through another's eyes.
Thanks!
Now I want play black myth
Xuanzang's charisma must have been extraordinary, to have charmed so many kings. I wonder how much of it is due to his physical appearance. In the novel I think he was described as being exceedingly handsome.
Eh, I only recognize the TVB one from 1995.
Actually in Water Margin, alot of the Buddhist monk were viewed negatively, like they are being corrupt with being lewd, drinking booze and greedy. Still Flower Priest who was a "Faux" Monk end up being a real Buddhist monk after his death as he lived up to the ideals.
Like in the chapter where Shi Xiu kills the lecherous monk, who was pandering with the wife of his sworn brother Yang Xiong. I can also see connections with Lu zhishen and Ji gong; who both ate meat and drank wine, but showed virtue and benevolence when upholding justice.
How long and how far did Xuenzhang go to the west?
I remember the Japanese Anime adaptation of this(Saiyuki:Reload)
The journey focus on the titular characters and finding all the heavenly scrolls and prevent the awakening of the Bull Demon/Gyumaoh
So the real story is that he pleased the gods and everyone and had some fun
Any chance to see a series about Harsha?
really great video can you do one on the Chinese laughing Buddha or Putai or Budai
What is the relationship between the Journey to the West and the Empresss Wu Zetian? She upgraded/restored the Wild Goose Temple in 704 AD. She was also a Buddhist. What was the relationship between this Empress and Confucianism, particularly Neo-Confucianism?
I would like to see someone create a travelogue of Matsuo Basho's travels.
Didn’t you already post this before?
This is a compilation of all the videos in the series.
@@CoolHistoryBros So basically part 1 and 2 into one?
Yeah. I need a bit more time on the next Sengoku episode because I'm trying to incorporate Japanese sources.
In our kingdom we worship durga but we call her as Ama Osa.
Also such human sacrifice was done but it was to goddess kali another form of durga.
Our kingdom was situated in present Bangladesh called Tipra/Tripura. Some say xuanzian might have visited, in some video & info.
During Mughal invasion many Muslim was sacrifice in our 14 god temple.
Let's face it guys, the ancient Chinese know their stuff.
Krillin was such a badass
thought this was a new episode for a sec ='(
07:26. "Oath Of brotherhood". Watching this channel i know this "Oath" means more than it says. *wink wink
2 of the great classics down. Taking bets on whether water margin or dream of the red chamber will be next.
Yeah - Monkey -- and the water Margin were two of the staples Must watch programs as i grew up - pity the bbc is so up its own arse it won't air them for WOKE reasons ..... I have some of the stuff on box set --- and the special effects hold up today (though water margin wise i think Ling Chun (?spelling) Still won't have made up his bloody mind to rebel) -- remember hoo-san-yan(g?) (questionable spelling) ..
Who's here after black myth wukong
+1
Thank you
The TVB Journey to the West season 1 is the best adoption.
When I think about the song from Journey to the west I only remember Tang SanZang sing Only You
Man… you should recommend a good tv show of this. Maybe Make a video
10:57 F in the chat
Here our indian history books refer him as Hiuen Tsang
Yes , KEEP SAFE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF KINGDAMS
I like yu idea of wander woman’s and song won kong
Connect with ship way civilizations alongside Western harbors to Eastern harbors of swimming fishes, sharks to shock us!!
I love RUclips channel but your mic quality hurts my ears
Bharat in my language mean west, so it's really are journey to the west
I’d love to see Sun Wukong and Wonder Woman spar. That’d be awesome!
Avatar the Last Airbender really took inspiration of this.
subtitles please
I still can't figure out how he walked over by himself
technology dwarfed human abilities.
i recognized that!
I was actually going to just read the book
So island of Cyprus is amazon
Man didn't know Buddhism reach Afghanistan
You don't recall the great Buddha carved into the mountains that stood about 1000 years but was blown up by Taliban two decades ago?
@@moozillamoo2109 😭😭
I still remember that. Thus started my intense dislike for monotheistic religions
@@TempleofBrendaSong Christianity is a good religion
i only recognize the 1996 theme song
In the fate series tang sanzang is a female
Mk and sayuki
I had watch the anime and the movie cool
That era must be hard time for that family.
Thanks
Hindus, Buddhists and Jainism are all part of Sanatan Dharma 🕉️.
This division was created by Britishers.(in Japan they follow Shinto - Buddhism, which is not that far off from what ancient Indian were doing.)
So that’s their names no wonder red calls the pigsy and sandy
thank god, those days had no taliban or similar, else he would be beheaded
I am going to re watch this vid when a game called "black myth wukong" is about to be released :D
When is it releasing?
The first one is what dragon ball tunes are based on.
Prity sad the modern Chinese seems forgotten the legend long ago .....and forget about the his great holy peacefull compassionate teachings 😓🙏
Buddhism already introduced into Mainland China during West Han Dynasty era which is almost six to eight hundred years before the Tang Dynasty. When the Buddhism came, the traditional Chinese Taoism are having a great interest to study on it instead of seeing it as a foreign threat, and many of the Chinese scholar found the Buddhism thinking are quite match with the Chinese origin philosophy, later on it became the so called Buddha-Tao combination or Buddhism-Confucianism-Taoism Combination (佛道合一/三教合一) which also give a big influences to Japan Korea Vietnam etc until today. So Buddhism might origin from India but it gained it great development and expansion from China.
Indian Buddhism is highly developed philosophically. Chinese Buddhism is pop Buddhism
I feel like I’ve seen this before 🤔