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Thread: What’s the relationship between Chinese Monkey King and Indian Hanuman?
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[quote=GUEST01238,654542]The relationship between Buddhism and Hinduism is indeed analogous to other religious schisms like that between Protestant Christianity and Catholocism. Do we consider the deities of Protestants to be different from those of Catholics? No, it's obvious they are simply disagreeing perspectives on the same concepts. Likewise Hinduism and Buddhism are both attempts to understand the esoteric details of life in South and East Asia. To say that they are dissimilar is to look only at their differences, and indeed, is only one side of the discussion pertaining to them. They are clearly related in a historical sense, in that both in their modern form share a common past. In that regard, I think it is 100% obvious and clear that Hanuman, being the one that predates the other, was the "original" deity/avatar/what-have-you, while Wu Kong was the result of a member of the Ming culture attempting to adopt and nationalize that story.[/quote]
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