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Thread: What’s the relationship between Chinese Monkey King and Indian Hanuman?
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[quote=GUESTQUEST,497145]He can't have a reincarnation as he's been absolved from the cycle. Sun Wukong is Hanuman. The story probably traveled from India to China as did many other things like kungfu/wushu. And along the way was embellished and morphed innumerable times. The Monkey God wasn't born out of the stone from a mountain but rather born and grew as a child on a mountain. Rama, though a king, was as divine as a sage(his divinity partly due to his karma from his past life). This was probably difficult for buddhist monks to explain to the lay people which was why he was probably introduced as a monk. Being a monk meant a life of chastity. This meant that the adventures of the Monkey God in the true story that revolved around retrieving Rama's wife Sita had to be substituted with embellishments.[/quote]
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