The Emperor in Hell
- Authors
- Jeff Pepper
- Publisher
- Imagin8 Press
- Tags
- monkey king , sun wukong , hsk-3 , chinese , story book , journey to the west
- ISBN
- 9781733165006
- Date
- 2019-06-06T05:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.09 MB
- Lang
- en
"The Emperor In Hell" is the fifth book in the "Journey to the West" series of stories by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. Other titles include "Rise of the Monkey King", "Trouble in Heaven", "The Immortal Peaches" and "The Young Monk".
This book is based on chapters 9, 10 and 11 of Journey To The West, an epic novel written in the 16th Century by Wu Chen'en. Each book in our Journey to the West series covers a short section of the original 2,000-page novel.
Journey To The West is loosely based on an actual journey by the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, who traveled from the Chinese city of Chang'an westward to India in 629 A.D. and returned 17 years later with priceless knowledge and texts of Buddhism. Over the course of the book the band of travelers face the 81 tribulations that Xuanzang had to endure to attain Buddhahood.
This book, the fifth in the series, tells the final series of stories that lead us to the actual journey to the west, which starts in Book 6. It...