Sun Wukong (also known as the Monkey King, the Monkey King, the Monkey King, the Monkey King, and the Fighting Buddha) is a character in the classical Chinese mythological novel "Journey to the West". The inspiration for the origin of the Monkey King predates novels and can be traced back to the Indian epic Ramayana and the Song Dynasty monkey god Hanuman. In the novel, he is a stone born monkey who has gained supernatural powers through Taoist cultivation. After resisting the Way of Heaven and being imprisoned by the Buddha at the foot of the mountain, he subsequently accompanied Tang Sanzang to the West (Indian subcontinent) where the Buddha and his followers lived to retrieve Buddhist scriptures.