A Warrior, Not a Buddha
斗战非佛
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 236k Words
- Genre
- Eastern Fantasy
- Subgenre
- Traditional Eastern Fantasy
- Updated
- 7mo ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Looking for Stories That Treat the Great Sage Well, Where He Is Unwaveringly Chosen: The Monkey King
Any Stories Where the Female Lead Ends Up in Journey to the West?
A Devoted Male Lead, No Harem, One-on-One Romance
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High-Quality Xuanhuan Novels
The best of the best on Tomato
A Badass, Faithful Male Lead With Only One Love Interest
Are There No Traditional Fantasy Novels Left?
Are there really no good books besides "Ten Realms" and "Slay the Gods"? I'm desperately out of things to read…! Fellow cultivators, please help!
True Traditional High Fantasy, Masterpieces Only, No Wish-Fulfillment Novels!
I'd like books similar to "Legends of the Seven Realms".
Brother Monkey, the Best Brother Monkey! Any Books Where He Has a CP?
Looking for books similar to "Journey to the West: I Really Don't Want to Be in a Bad Ending with That Monkey".
Fantasy with One Female Lead
Any fantasy novels where the male lead has only one wife? Or stories where the female lead is reborn and the male lead respects her? I don't want him acting like he's in heat and forcing a kiss on her after they've only met once.
Any Recommendations for Novels Starring Sun Wukong?
The protagonist should be Sun Wukong. Preferably, nobody transmigrates into Sun Wukong.
Dark Fiction: I Want the Utterly, Utterly Dark Stuff
No self-righteous, holier-than-thou female leads, please.
Primordial Era, Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, Tang Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, History
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Books About Journey to the West
I think the protagonist was Sun Wukong's brother, maybe his older or younger brother. I forget. Sun Wukong may have been humiliated or killed, so the protagonist called his underlings and went to help him teach the Jade Emperor and the others a lesson.
Martial Souls, Devouring, Traditional Fantasy
Looking for an Innovative Book. They All Follow the Same Formula These Days
Male-lead novels only. I've read so many books lately that I can't get through them. After reading a little, I can already guess all the tropes to come. Nothing feels original. Please recommend something different and new!
A Wife Who’s a Righteous Dao Companion, Upright and Devoted, and Wants to Pursue the Great Dao Together with the Male Lead
Begging for One Female Lead, Traditional Fantasy, Plenty of Her Scenes, Two Strong Leads, and Great Teammates
Are There Any Journey to the West Novels Without Conspiracy Theories, Just a Normal Pilgrimage to the Western Heaven?
I'm looking for novels about traveling west the whole way, without going off on tangents like killing Tang Sanzang or the Tathagata.
Any High-Quality Traditional Xuanhuan Novels? I've Been Reading for 10 Years
Looking for books like The Primordial Talisman God.
Who Could Resist a Cute, Sunny, Cheerful Little Monkey with the Right Values?
I want to read something similar to Sheng Dai: Good Girl, You Must Have Been Wronged. A female-oriented novel with sound logic, and please, no angst-heavy stories. My heart cannot take it~
Fantasy, Xianxia, Traditional Cultivation Fantasy, Cultivation, Otherworldly Continents, and Powerful Characters
Myth-Inspired Stories with a Realistic Feel, From Earth to the Immortal Realms
Stories close to real mythology and history, starting on Earth and going all the way to the immortal realms or the Primordial World. Ideally, the historical records should actually be accurate, so I can learn something along the way too, hahahaha.
Looking for High-Quality, Passionate Xuanhuan Novels
Any Traditional Fantasy Novels With a Good Romance?
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The road to enlightenment from "fighting against the Buddha" to "non-Buddha" - with its grand narrative structure, profound ideological connotation and delicate emotional description, this work has completed an in-depth excavation and contemporary reconstruction of the classic image of "Sun Wukong". What it asks is not "What else can Sun Wukong do", but "What else will Sun Wukong experience after he becomes the Victorious Buddha?" He has transformed from a mythical symbol into a "person" who can be understood, empathized with, and loved. He is defiant and fragile; responsible and hesitant; angry and gentle. He will be tired and in pain. The core of "Journey to the West" is "cultivation of the mind" - Sun Wukong transformed from an unruly stone monkey into a fighting and victorious Buddha. The core of "Fighting with Non-Buddha" is "clear mind" - after fighting and defeating Buddha, what else does Sun Wukong need to go through before he can truly "clear his heart and see his nature". It is not a subversion of the original work, but an in-depth exploration of the original work. It's not about deconstructing myths, but giving them a human touch.
An epic about "becoming yourself". It is not a "Westward Journey"-style deconstruction, nor a "Wukong Biography"-style rebellion, but a more mature retelling with compassion and insight. It does not ask "What else can Sun Wukong do", but "What else will Sun Wukong experience after he becomes the Victorious Buddha" - this question has never been answered by anyone before. Forty chapters, the road to enlightenment from "fighting against Buddha" to "non-Buddha" - with its grand narrative structure, profound ideological connotation and delicate emotional description, this work has completed an in-depth excavation and contemporary reconstruction of the classic image of "Sun Wukong", giving the myth a human touch.
The writing style is unique, and it feels like watching Journey to the West. When I was a kid, I just watched monkeys, and many of the details were blurred. Watching it again, it was like going back to summer vacation. The ending is tearful, the Great Sage is always there, you and I are both practitioners.
This book has long transcended the novel text and turned into a code in the cultural gene - everyone has a path to becoming a Buddha in their heart, and every era is rewriting its own "Journey to the West".
High-burning, sadomasochistic, it feels a bit like watching the sequel to Journey to the West when I was a kid. It's very interesting. I watched it to the end in one go and will continue to follow it!