His inspiration comes from an amalgam of Indian and Chinese culture. One of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, the Monkey King has a varied background and colorful cultural history. He also demonstrates partial weather manipulation abilities and can stop people in place with fixing magic. His hair possesses magical properties, capable of creating copies of himself or transforming into various weapons, animals, and other objects. He is a skilled fighter, capable of defeating the best warriors of heaven. Sun Wukong also acquires the 72 Earthly transformations, which allow him to transform into various animals and objects. He has immense strength he is able to support the pressing weight of two celestial mountains on his shoulders while running "with the speed of a meteor." He is extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 km, 34,000 mi) in one somersault. After five hundred years, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) and two other disciples on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from the West (Indian subcontinent) where Buddha and his followers reside. After rebelling against heaven he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. In Journey to the West, the Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. Inspiration for the Monkey King's origins predate the novel and has been traced back to Hanuman, the Monkey-God from the Hindu epic Ramayana, from the Song dynasty. The Monkey King, known as Sun Wukong (孫悟空/孙悟空) in Mandarin Chinese, is a legendary mythic figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West (西遊記/西游记) and many later stories and adaptations.
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