Sun Wukong is a disciple of the first generation of Taoism

Monkey King: That's a mythical story in Journey to the West, and it has nothing to do with Lao Tzu's Taoism. It can only be said that Sun Wukong is the apprentice of the Bodhi Patriarch in Journey to the West. And Patriarch Bodhi is an immortal outside the world.

In the ancient literary work "Journey to the West", the two cultures of Buddhism and Taoism are integrated. In "Journey to the West", many people define themselves through Taoist culture and Buddhist culture. Among them, the five members of the Xitian scripture study team have their own positions in Taoism and Buddhism.

The five organs of human beings correspond to the heavenly and earthly branches, the heart and lungs correspond to Shen, the heart and lungs belong to the fire, Taoism compares the fire of the heart and lungs to the ape of the fire refining, and the monkey jumps up and down is the heart of the five organs, so the Taoist church calls the ape the heart ape. Buddhism believes that people have to go through training and travel in order to achieve the purpose of exercising the mind, so the heart is also called the practitioner, and the heart ape also corresponds to the practitioner, and the mind must be cultivated to the most complete state is "emptiness", that is, Wukong. Next, let's talk about the heart ape and Bajie in "Journey to the West".

1. The reason why Sun Wukong is called the heart ape comes from the Taoist definition Taoism uses the five elements and eight trigrams to correspond to the organs in the human body, and the heart corresponds to fire, and the image of the heart is an active ape, constantly jumping up and down, a fire monkey in a hurry. The purpose of cultivating the mind is to reach the realm of a "Wukong", so the Bodhi Patriarch named this ape Wukong, so that it can cultivate the state of mind and control the nature of the heart ape.

Second, the reason why Sun Wukong is called the heart ape is also Buddhism, there is a Buddhist term in Buddhism is the heart ape is noisy, "Vima Sutra Defeat Cover Answer Incense Accumulation Buddha Products": "The heart of a person who is difficult to transform is like an ape, so it is possible to subdue his heart with a number of wisdom methods." "The reason why Sun Wukong is called the heart ape also has the meaning of Buddhism, it is difficult to domesticate, so he will be put on a tight spell, and he will return to Huaguo Mountain several times, and the story of the real and false Monkey King will appear.

3. It is the seven emotions and six desires that correspond to the heart ape, and the eight cautions are the water that can restrain the power of fire, that is, the Tianpeng Marshal of the Taoist group, incarnated as the image of a pig corresponding to the kidney. The kidney water attribute is yin, the seven emotions and six desires of the person in charge, gluttonous and flamboyant, greedy for money and lustful, so when it comes to the Buddhist team, it will be named "eight precepts" and need to keep the precepts. Therefore, Sun Wukong will be afraid of Zhu Bajie, because the kidney water will mess up his mind.

It's Taoism, my uncle is a Taoist priest, and after dinner at his house on the first day of the Monkey New Year, I saw him light a candle and incense, and saluted a god card, and the words written on it were: Please Monkey King or something, I took a photo and sent it to the circle of friends, and then deleted it.

Sun Wukong studied under the patriarch Su Bodhi, and the patriarch Su Bodhi is a Taoist immortal, so Sun Wukong is also a Taoist immortal. Later, because of the havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he was trapped by the Buddha at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, and then in order to atone for his sins and regain his freedom, he worshiped Tang Seng as a teacher, returned to Buddhism, and learned scriptures from the West. In the end, the merit was completed, and he was named the holy Buddha of the fighting by the Buddha, and he became a Buddhist immortal.

The final answer is that Sun Wukong was first a Taoist immortal, and later became a Buddhist immortal.

Several landlords answered a little inaccurate, you can see at a glance that you are based on the Journey to the West and the gods as the basis for answering, in fact, Sun Wukong is not a Taoist and not a Buddhist, it is not a Taoist orthodox god, strictly speaking, it belongs to the folk belief in God, so in the Taoist immortal system summary can not see the Monkey King, in the five sects of Buddhism in the classics of the various sects of Buddhism there is no record of it.

Sun Wukong was later named the Buddha of Fighting and Defeating, and was one of the thirty-five Buddhas in Buddhism.