Legend · Ming novel / Tang pilgrimage
Journey to the West
Chang'an to Thunderclap Monastery
The monk Xuanzang, Sun Wukong, and a road of eighty-one tribulations to fetch the scriptures.
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Chronicler
Still at Chang'an
The road to The frontier passes is 400 miles. The Tang capital. A monk, a commission, and a stubborn monkey under a mountain.
The road
Chang'an
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The Tang capital. A monk, a commission, and a stubborn monkey under a mountain.
The frontier passes
400 mi
Leaving the empire. Two apprentices short, and the desert ahead.
The Flowing Sands
900 mi
Sha Wujing's river. The company is finally four.
Cart-Slow Kingdom
1,600 mi
Taoists and rain. Wukong's patience is a weapon.
The Fiery Mountains
2,200 mi
A fan, a princess, and a road that burns.
India's approaches
2,700 mi
The West is no longer a direction. It is a country.
Thunderclap Monastery
3,107 mi
Lingshan. The scriptures, the tribulations counted, the way home still to walk.
Literary 10,000 li (~3,107 miles), after Wu Cheng'en