What is the level of Sun Wukong and other masters and apprentices who have become Buddhas?

If you explain it simply, according to Buddhism, the Buddha is not divided into ranks, so there is no difference between big and small, of course, it can also be explained a little more complicated, if it is more complicated, if you connect Arhats, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, you have to divide the difference between Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism, because in the two, there is a difference in dealing with this issue.

1.Around the 1st century AD, Buddhism was divided into Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism, and the main difference between the two was that there were disagreements in the interpretation and understanding of Buddhist teachings.

Hinayana maintains the original teachings, with Shakyamuni as the leader and the Ahama Sutra as the main scripture;

Mahayana, on the other hand, has modified and developed the original teachings, believing that there are countless Buddhas in the three worlds and ten directions, and that the Prajna Sutra, the Vima Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Huayan Sutra, and the Amitayus Sutra are the main scriptures, while the Hinayana school considers itself orthodox, and the Mahayana school considers itself to be innovative.

2.(1) The meaning of Buddha.

Buddha, short for Buddha, means enlightened, enlightened, and knowing. According to Buddhism, enlightenment has three meanings: realization, enlightenment (enlightenment of sentient beings), and enlightenment and perfection.

Among them, the perfection of enlightenment is the highest state of Buddhist practice, and the Buddha is the enlightened one who has attained this highest state. In addition, the Buddha mentioned in Theravada Buddhism is generally used as an honorific title for Shakyamuni; In addition to Shakyamuni, Mahayana Buddhism also refers to all those who have attained enlightenment.

2) Classification of Buddhas.

a.Shakyamuni Three-Body Buddha, Dharmakaya Buddha, centered; Buddha of the body, on the left; Should be the Buddha, on the right.

b.The three Buddhas, the Buddhist saying, that is, the past, the present, and the future three lives, have.

The three Buddhas of the horizontal world (the Medicine Buddha of the Eastern Pure Glass World is on the left, the Shakyamuni Buddha of the Suva world is in the center, and the Amitabha Buddha of the Western Elysium is on the right), and the three Buddhas of the vertical world (the present Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha, the Buddha of the past who burned the lamp, and the future Buddha Maitreya).

Note: 1Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha left side of the Manjushri Bodhisattva, right side of the service of the Bodhisattva, these three together called "the three Buddhas".

2.Medicine Buddha serves the Sunlight Bodhisattva on the left flank and the Moonlight Bodhisattva on the right flank, and these three are collectively called the "Three Sages of the East" or "The Three Statues of Medicine Buddha".

3.Amitabha Buddha is the head of the Western Elysium, serving Guanyin Bodhisattva on the left side and Dashi Zhibodhisattva on the right side, collectively known as the "Three Sages of the West" or "Amitabha Three Statues".

3.Bodhisattva. It is a practitioner who has only attained the two realms of self-realization and enlightenment, and has not yet attained the perfection of enlightenment and needs to achieve Buddhahood in the future.

4.Lohan. In Mahayana Buddhism, arhats are lower than Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and in Hinayana Buddhism arhats are the highest attainable attainments.

Buddhism believes that to obtain the status of arhat is to cut off all afflictions, and should be subjected to the ** of heaven and man, and no longer the cycle of life and death.

Tang Seng is the Buddha of merit, Sun is the Buddha who fights and defeats the Buddha, should be greater than the Bodhisattva, the pig is the messenger, and the Sha is the Arhat is one level smaller than the Bodhisattva.

"Journey to the West".After Sun Wukong became a Buddha, he was sealed to fight to defeat the Buddha, and the fight to defeat the Buddha isBuddhismOne of the 35 Buddhas, there is no position among the Buddhas, that is, there is no rank.

Among the thirty-five Buddhas, Tang Seng is the Buddha of Zhantan Merit.

ranked 19th; Wukong defeated Buddha in 31st place. So in the Buddha world, Sun Wukong is only the 31st.

Character influence. The influence of "Journey to the West" can be said to be quite far-reaching, in addition to Japan, the United States, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries also have many images of the Monkey King. For the image of Monkey King, the producers of movies and TV series have not stopped refreshing.

It is a pity that the classics stand still, and although various versions of "Journey to the West" have emerged in an endless stream in recent years, no Monkey King has been able to penetrate into the hearts of the people so far.

Tang Seng was named "Zhantan Merit Buddha", Sun Wukong was named "Fighting to Defeat Buddha", Zhu Wuneng was named "Pure Companion First Altar Messenger", and Sha Wujing was named "Golden Arhat".

1.Tang Seng: The prototype is the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang. Xuanzang, born in Luoyang, Henan Province, the common name "Chen Yuan", the law name "Xuanzang", was respected as "Sanluling Shuzang Master", and later the secular name "Tang Seng".

2.Monkey King:

He became the king of monkeys by leading a group of monkeys into the Water Curtain Cave and was revered as the "Monkey King". Later, after thousands of mountains and rivers worshiped Su Bodhi Patriarch as a teacher, he was named Sun Wukong, and learned superb spells such as seventy-two changes of earth evil, somersault clouds, and immortality.

3.Zhu Bajie:

Tang Seng's second apprentice, will be the number of 36 changes in the sky, held by the ** for the Taishang Laojun, the Jade Emperor personally given the treasure Qin gold palladium (commonly known as the nine-tooth nail rake). In his previous life, Zhu Bajie was the marshal of Tianpeng who was in charge of the Tianhe 80,000 water army.

4.Sha Wujing:

Because he accidentally broke the glass cup, violated the rules of heaven, was demoted from the heavenly realm, made waves in the quicksand river in the world, endangered one party, and ate passers-by. After the Guanyin was ignited, the Dharma number was given to Wujing Wang, and he returned to the Buddha wholeheartedly, and together with the eight precepts and Wukong, he protected the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang Master Xitian to worship the Buddha and seek the true scriptures.

Zhantan Meritorious Buddha. The Monkey King is one of the famous mythological characters in China, from the four famous novels "Journey to the West". His ancestral home is Dongsheng Shenzhou, born from the immortal stone since the beginning of the world, and he became the king of all monkeys because he led the monkeys into the Water Curtain Cave, and was respected as the "Monkey King".

Later, after thousands of mountains and rivers worshiped the patriarch of Su Bodhi as a teacher, he was named Sun Wukong, and learned superb spells such as the great heavenly immortal formula, the seventy-two changes of the earth's evil numbers, and somersault clouds.

The Monkey King, who had just become a supernatural power, first made trouble in the Dragon Palace to obtain the Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick, and then made a big fuss in the underworld to hook the book of life and death, and was later recruited by the heavenly realm and named Bi Ma Wen. After learning of his humble position, he returned to Huaguo Mountain angrily, and defeated the crusade of King Tota and the Third Prince, forcing the Jade Emperor to crown him as the Monkey King, and build the Monkey King Mansion in the Heavenly Court, and was ordered to manage the Pan Tao Garden.

Because of drunkenness, he disrupted the queen mother's peach event, stole the golden pill of Taishang Laojun, refined it into a golden steel body, and refined his eyes in Taishang Laojun's gossip furnace by mistake. After making a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, the four heavenly kings, and the twenty-eight stars could not defeat it, and later lost in the bet and fight with Rulai, and was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain (renamed the Two Realms Mountain in the Tang Dynasty) with five fingers for more than 500 years.

Scattered immortals, Taiyi side doors, outer golden immortals.