Monkey meets Buddha
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A retelling of one of my favorite childhood stories.
Monkey meets the Buddha and is challenged to a contest of power. He flies to the end of the universe where he finds five golden pillars. After leaving his mark he returns to find just how small his power truly is in the grand scheme.
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As a kid, this was my first exposure to Buddhism. I remember, though, recognizing the Buddha as a religious figure and thinking it was goofy that they insisted on sanitizing him as "the Guardian."
When people go on their little rants about how "overly sensitive" people are "nowadays" (and they're usually no older than twenty, anyway), it makes me chuckle to think how many parents would flip their lids over anything that was explicitly non-Christian. (How Mr. Satan became "Hercule," and how gods always became "celestial beings," and demons would be made "monsters" or "mutants.")
Shit is older than time, in the book of invasions the old irish/celtic gods were also sanitized
Well, I do agree that them choosing "the guardian" as a title is goofy and they should have chosen a less generic one like "World Honored One"
BUT in Buddhism Buddhahood is entirely different than Godhood for gods (or heavenly beings) are still trapped in the 6 paths while the buddha isn't. He wasn't an explanation for natural phenomeon and he didn't created the universe. So they wouldn't have to call him "god" in the first place.
I miss this old show. It had a message to kids. Even with all the talent and ambition, we can all be humbled. Especially if our ambition gets to disrespectful to others.
No, unfortunately not. These days the message is everybody gets a prize just for participating and... safe spaces or something.
Ya hear that, Mr. Trump?
I thought the message was it doesnt matter how hard you try youll never be as good as those born with power and status therefore you should know your place under there boot and never try to reach above your station.
@@MrRaveninja1 ooohhh burrrrrnnn 🔥 🔥 🔥
@@MrRaveninja1 damn son that was gold!
Fun fact: in the actual story Sun Wukong pisses against one of the pillars and Buddha uses that as proof instead of a picture and a handprint
PFFFFFFT-
No from what I remember sun wukong wrote his name on the pillar and then pissed on the pillar
@@justsomebody5450 you're right, he left a signature. Dunno why I forgot to mention that.
@@justsomebody5450 Yea. Carved his name into one, and pissed on another.
Son Wukong - Goku in looks, Vegeta in attitude XD
Ikr XD
Goku is inspired by sun wukong
The exact point of Goku and Vegeta. They’re one.
It's too bad this show never finished. I don't think even half of Dragon ball fans know that DB and this were adapted from the same tale.
I'm sure you'd be wrong.
1acroyear1 inspired by journey to the west..Id say hes about right
Rhoderian Gadia I mean about people not knowing that.
Rashad Moore
Most fans know it, before dragon ball was introduced to americans.
+1acroyear1 I don't think most if the mainstream america knows that
Its been at least 20 years of me looking for this show.....i started google searching this scene and finally found it... THANK YOU!!!
Glad to have been of service.
What is this show called and where can I find it?
What's the name of the show?
@@jobsidian4219 monkey magic
@@jobsidian4219 It's called "Monkey Magic" (1999)
Dare I say how even if the CGI didn't date well , this seems like one of the better 90's to make use of bright, saturated, digitally done colours and seem 'ahead of it's time' w/the shadowing on characters reminding me of something from the mid 00's or onward if not a movie special. It might also be more apparent since the character designs of Susumu Matsushita have a distinct cartooniness to them which you don't really always see in anime.
My God. Buddha sounds like Lord Guru ^ ^ I keep waiting for him to say NAAAAIL!!
Buddha sounds like a prick I mean really mortals must live on Earth by the will of God I can live where ever I feel if I had the power and authority of God to do so I consider Buddha a demon WuKong wins...
I cannot unhear bruuuuuhhhh
@@astrolight5708 But it goes to show you that NOTHING is above God as the ending of the episode proves.
I remember watching THIS exact same episode back when I was a kid, and I had no idea what this show was but I thought he resembled Goku with the cloud and stick, and I thought it was awesome how the Guardian defeated him, and I never found out what this show was and never found it again until now. Thank you!
Same here. I saw it years ago.
His name isn’t guardian his name is buddha
@@lynetu in the American translation it was changed to "the gaurdian". You are correct though. The original the character is refered to as Buddha.
His name is goku on Wikipedia
You've been in my hand the whole entire time. That's deep.
My dad tells me about this chapter in Journey to the West all the time, and he told me the reason the monkey couldn't escape Buddha's hand is because the monkey represents the mind. So while a great mind can make you powerful and take you and anywhere, into heaven, hell, and the end of space and time, you cannot reach what's outside your own mind. So if my dad's interpretation is any indication, yeah, actually; it is kind of deep.
Because the Buddha is one with nature and the universe. Therefore he is omni present.
+Henry Lazaga tell that to asura
@@henrylazaga God is the true, ultimate Creator.
@@SelphieFairy This is in fact entirely true, each of the main characters in journey to the west represents an aspect of a single human's journey to enlightenment. With monkey representing the mind.
7:47 "have you ever considered the pain and agony you'd caused others in the past" , yet all his misdeeds were done because people provoked him.
Maybe, but there are many lessons for someone to learn and will have to go through a bit of suffering to learn a deep lesson of humility and not be consumed by pride in thinking one is all powerful, even more than the Creator Himself.
@@Disneyfan82 i think it worked better with other adaptions of Wukong since he was mostly an egotistical jerk
And while Kongo isn't perfect, throughout the anime, the only reason Kongo attacked the humans was bc they were destroying their home and harassing them. Then the gods came and attempted to kill Kongo for defending his people from humans.
Kongo isn't exactly selfish as he initially went to learn magic to learn how to better protect his people from the gods.
He was all about his people until (for some reason) he meet budda and was like
"No I'm the biggest and i can do what I want" which was Random considering before this he wanted to PROTECT the weaklings which was his people
@@candycane1744 Yeah, the "Guardian" here is a gaslighting jackass if anything, making Kongo believe it was his fault when he was acting out of self-defense.
the Buddha put him on a psychedelic trip through the universe LOL.
Buddha tells of his power. This does not mean he is arrogant. He only was stating fact. He presents to the monkey his infinite power, then shows monkey that monkey is an individual soul who must reflect upon its actions. Buddha knows that monkey will come to thank him for forcing him to be trapped, so that it would think out its morals, and become a superior creature than it was, by means of this. The monkey is very rude and has a small mindset. It is possible that Buddha knew that it was only by this means of trapping him for 500 years that the lower creature would eventually come to realize the light. Buddha loves him, so he is looking far to this best future. As well, Buddha's laughs are not insulting to monkey, or laughing in pleasure of how powerful he is, and what he can do to the monkey... no. He is laughing at how cute the monkey is right now.
I'm not sure how I found this but it was quite a treat :) long live the Buddha!
Didn't wukong also piss on one of the pillars
Yeah but kids show and all
Yup he got pinned under a mountain shaped like a hand. Basically Buddha gave ol Kongo here a Karma sized bitch slap!
@@WandererCayne It goes to show you that nobody, despite what they try to do, is above the all powerful creator of everything.
Disneyfan82 let’s be honest here, if he wasn’t so chill, Buddha would be one scary enemy!
@@WandererCayne Yeah. Buddha like any other Creator of the Universe in other stories would be scarier than anything down on earth.
Oh! I've heard of this story before. Not the series, but his particular story where the monkey god thinks he's stronger than the Buddha. It was quite a profound teaching on being humble.
No idea why but this has stuck with me my whole life and I never thought I'd find the video lol idk it just blew my mind when I was a kid that he never left his hand
I'm glad you found what you were looking for here. I hope your mind is more settled now.
The view count...
IT'S OVER 9,000!!!
Thanks to everyone for visiting!
yoo this takes me back to my childhood!!! the 90s were a good time for me
Gods here were very unjust. There was clear favouritism for the humans.
I also don't like how quickly Kongo went from
"I'm fighting to protect my people from the humans"
To
"Neh I'm the biggest baddie in these here parts so i deserve to rule heaven!"
Okay, think about this. Humans acknowledge the gods and do what they can to garner their favor. The monkeys ignore them and Kongo specifically tries to conquer them. Kongo is supposed to be a metaphor for human arrogance. And when you think about it he's not that different from modern man today.
@@1acroyear1 ahhh that's actually a VERY VERY good explanation :0
Didn't think about that
Funny enough, if he had gone past the pillars, he might have gotten past Buddha.
Irony I guess or bitter irony
Wouldn't have worked. Since Buddha surpassed nirvana, he is literally everywhere. If he passed the pillars, the same pillars would have popped up again. It was a one sided victory
then it would've been infinite pillar he meet
Wukong literally just needed to go past the gold pillars to win the game...
Not really. Buddha had Sun Wukongs life in his hand, the entire time. That's the point: You just can't beat someone who is omnipotent. It's impossible.
Omnipotence has no limits.
+Just Somebody
I pretty sure you mean Jade Emperor is the omnipotent because Jade is the omnipotent in Chinese god world.
Buddha/Sun Wukong didn't bond to that weakling rules/ world or god/gods though.
Just saying how powerful they are.
@@garryharreth6542 no I'm the original story Buddha bet the jade emperors throne in heaven the guy reached nirvana the guy is basically omnipotent
Sun Wukong rules. I dressed as him for Halloween one year, but even my Chinese friends didn't know who I was. I had to explain it around the office a million times. Go Team America. TT TT
..."jet cloud?" "Power rod?" F-cking seriously?!
*I must admit that sometimes I think that the Guardian used a technicality to win. Since the Guardian, or the Buddha, was said to know the future, perhaps he knew where Kongo would travel and simply followed him there thanks to the fact that he never said that he wouldn't follow him. Since I might be wrong, I'm open to other theories as well.*
Buddha can small as the atom or as big as the universe.
In Buddhism, most of time, story on gods, power, fairy tale... reflect the teaching of the Buddha.
In this case the teaching of the Buddha is emptiness (Heart Sutra).
"I EXIST EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME". What exist everywhere at the same time ? EMPTYNESS !!!.
For example : 2x2=4 (form) is also emptiness, billions of persons make this equation eveywhere at the same time, and if they dont make this equation, it becomes emptiness (form is emptyness, emptiness is form).
At the place where is Buddha you can make 2x2=4, at the place where is Kango is can make this equation, Everywhre you go you are in the sphere of the Buddha knowledge.
The main idea of author bring out this fight is for wukong to learn what beyond his physical and capable. Everything in this world had it own order, even when you jump out the three realms and out five element. But you will still within the order, no matter how much wukong try break the chain of order. There will be order that adept to what wukong done and will acount wukong into it. For example much later in the book, wukong still be beaten by forms of demon on his journey. Like a scorpion demon, wukong was defeated by it poison, but the scorpion was defeated by a low rank chciken god that was bully by wukong easily. The concept of Buddha was he understand the order within this three realms. Even he know he couldn't do anything over the chain. But the wisdom allow him to be enlightenment and had true peace with it. The idea wukong unable fly out from his hand it because that wuKong had the idea and concept of Buddha imprinted in himself. So even where or when ever wukong go, the Buddha will be with him. If wukong doesn't had the idea of Buddha within him, he will easily walk of from Buddha hand. It one of idea the author try present to reader. It quite cringe. But it truth in real life. For example when you lost into a maze of significant idea. Your mind will be played by the idea and haunted by it. The only way you have your overcome the concept, it either you remove the concept of you significant idea from your mind (it will come back to hunt you again in future)or made peace with it. If not your will be literally be in the hand of the idea.
No Buddha reached nirvana the guy is basically the universe itself he is every where and nowhere at the same time
the Budha says Kongo caused a lot of pain and suffering but in fairness lots of it were in self defence or defending his people
He just took things too far I guess
holy shit !! i remember this. Monkey Magic was freaking awesome back in the day. Ronin Warriors, Samurai Pizza Cats, Pokemon, Monster Rancher, and DBZ were my SHIT way back when. LoL
The original flying nimbus, the original Son Goku the original power pole....
MUI MONKEY: KAME... HAME... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
BUDDHA: WRONG ANIME
ZENO: I FEELING A UNBALANCE IN THE UNIVERSES
Dude I watched this all the time when I was small..haven't seen it since until now
although the guardian was amused with Congo's feat of travelling at interstellar speed to far distance to the universe, i think we all can agree that modern superman would feel amazed and stupefied.
Congo/Kongo/WuKong/Goku/Sun Wukong/Son Gokuu its all literally the same thing
In the original story he peed on the pillars which were Buddha's fingers
huh so that new monkey king movie on Netflix is really accurate 🤣
yeah... i kinda feel sad for him. he was just being his king while people just tricked him in uh... "heaven"? and got him mad and all. Wukong is innocent. i guess. sorry. talking about the original cartoon. XD
Hey I remember this cartoon when I was a child man what ever happen to this show man o man they should had made movie or video game something can't beleave this I wonder what happen
There was a video game, it was for the PlayStation 1 back in 1999.
1:18 Frieza and Goku in a nutshell
I don't know any Buddhists off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure Buddha didn't talk like Galactus. Seriously, Buddha comes off as a legitimate super villain. Complete with threatening laugh and description of how powerful he is.
+Quantum Mechanik Haha! XD
Yeah when a heard his voice, I was like O.o Whao, what? His voice. I found his laugh amusing, though.
only a show
Buddha's voice tone should be more soft and calm.
have you guys even seen buddha in other games and anime? Buddha is often put as a villain such as the case in Fate Extra and Yatja who is basically Buddha in Wrath of Asura.
Damn, that was trippy as hell
i remember seeing this on tv as a kid
I wish they would resume finishing the anime
ya that would be pretty cool. But since I believe its an old show maybe they could re do or remake it somehow?
@@rendred5442yea or do another Wukong adaptation like the God Of Highschool
Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking for this for years! I could never remember the name of the show!
"PWNED!!!"
Man, 2009 ruled.
2009??? Lol i remember this MUCH earlier than that..
LOL
"Look what he's done!"
*points to an entire fucking mountain on fire*
"Uncalled for dude."
Back when dragon ball z and monkey magic was on upbeat station
I always just assumed that it would appear that they're moving with him, like a holographic illusion.
We can finally relive Kongo’s journey in Black Myth: Wukong! 😁 Maybe the popularity can help reboot this series. (I can wish, can’t I?😅)
Lol! Sanzoh's voice actor is Double D's! Ahh..good ol' Sam Vincent
Hi, I found this video while looking for a tv show from 1979 called "Monkey" - where Monkey flew on his cloud and could not get further than Buddha's hand..... different show, same story?!!! Wow, I'm confused! When did this show air, and is it related to the 1979 show Monkey, if anyone knows. Thanks 😁👍
Yes, they're both adaptations of the chinese novel "Journey to the West", which is more or less the asian equivalent to the Iliad or The Odyssey. It's a literary classic about the monkey king and a buddhist monk traveling to India to retrieve a copy of the sutras and bring them back to china. It's based on an even older legend that dates to around the year 700 AD. Many animes are inspired by if not a straight up ripoff of Journey to the West.
@@1acroyear1 thanks for the information! I will read up about the Journey to the West! All these years I have loved the Monkey tv show and now I'm finally learning what it was based on! 🐒
Thanks ✌🙂
So basically im monky
His personality reminds me of Sat a.m sonic
The DVD set is extraordinarily rare. Your best bet is to try to find individual episodes on VHS or DVD on Ebay or Amazon or something.
no it's not. Congo is a region in Africa. only Son Goku and Sun Wukong are the only actual versions of the name out of what you listed.
No where near as good as the 1970s live action version. Monkey peed, in addition to writing griffiti, on Buddha's fingers in that one! Also Monkey had more charm & wit in his pinky in that version than this version has in his entire body. Buddha was more likeable & believable too.
I used to play this anime on PS1,
rw:to me this was rly the episode to end this show the last time i saw it,i miss you Kongo i rly do.U_U
I am here because I remember watching this as a kid in the 90s
Nobody remember
This show
Wookong is out and I’m like this is more accurate than DBZ
I literally just now watched the 2023 movie and it had this scene. When i saw it i felt such a strong sense of deja vu. I saw this when i was just a little kid.
holy crap omg i haven't seen this part in ages xD
i remember this wen i was 7 too bad they cancelled it. one of the best hsows in the 90's
Buddha is GIANT
Lord Buddha is great namo Buddha 🙏🙏🙏🙏
JUST INCREDIBLE! I loved this show!
They need to continue this series
I always wondered what would happen if he tried to fly past the pillars.
It's a story above all else though, not a guide to buddhism. Like Disney's Hercules with Greek deities, or the Castlevania games with Christianity. It's borrowing elements from several local religions and merging them together into a unique world.
This was my favorite episode
Did you use a paint brush? 😂😂😂😂😂
What is the story's name?
4:41 Sounds like a stock sound effect😂
I've never seen this adaptation
Monkey Magic, you can find it in Dialymotion
when did Buddha become so skinny? LOL
Buddha was always skinny. He's only fat to the Chinese.
i c i c
they are different. Laughing Buddha is from Chinese Buddhism. Siddhartha is from Buddhism in India, where it was originally created.
For some reason the Chinese got Buddha mixed up with their God of laughter. What's really funny is that some people thought the fat Buddha was a woman!
What lot of westerners know as "Buddha" is actually a chinese deity called "Bhikku Hotei".
"Hotei" can also be pronounced as "Butai" / "Budai".
Hotei represents abundance (hence the "fat" appearance) and laughter.
Because of the similarities between the names "Buddha" and "Budai" (along with the ignorance of the westerners when it comes to Buddhism), people started mistaking Hotei (Budai) with Siddharta Gautama (Buddha).
As you might have guessed, Siddharta, Buddha, wasn't bald, nor fat, nor wasn't he laughing all the time.
That's it.
This is truly beautiful, I got nat 20 psychic damage lol
@redcatsanime I believe they would of gone into the Journey to the West story. They never finished the series.
Is that inuyasha?
Well, while the voice actor, Samuel Vincent, was in InuYasha, he was not the title character. (Although, he was the voice of Hare in Monster Rancher)
Double D actually.
Buddha voiced by Zeratul from Star Craft 1
I have been looking for this show for so long
That Kongo's voice...where have I heard that voice actor before..? XD
Sam Vincent
@@elijahsuperstar4967 Aka Double D from Ed Edd n Eddy.
God is being very unfair here.
The humans went and attacked his home multiple times, so he in turn retaliated against them, and the stupid lesser gods went and interfered on behalf of the attackers when they saw what was happening.
that's not how it happens in the novel, Journey to the West, where this scene makes more sense
You're forgetting that the monkeys started it by raiding the humans' farms and stealing their crops.
@@1acroyear1 true but we didn't see that in the anime
Just the humans building the dam first
@@candycane1744 Yeah, and Buddha gaslit Kongo by telling him it was his fault in the first place, he was trying to do what was best for his people since the last king of the monkeys was a moron.
Bro look like goku fr
Monkey:check
Nimbus:check
Power pole:check
Gokus cousin
All similarities are purely coincidental.
I remember watching a few episodes of this show. I didn't hate the show but the animation for whatever reason felt very clumsy to me.
I remember when this show aired on sunday mornings, how many episodes did this thing have? to wiki! away!
excellent, just what i needed in my recommended
Never seen this show before looks awesome
Imagine Goku acting like this if he didn't hit his head haha- probably something Vegeta would try
the original was in the 16th century and was written in a book ...
Dude! Where did you get this?!
Well, I hope you enjoy it.
Please take a look at my other videos as well. Rate, comment and all that good stuff.
I only know this from the PS1 game lmao
Well there ya go. Now you know where it comes from.
can someone tell me the name of this cartoon?
I’m sorry I’ve never seen this show in my life, only like the 1999 jttw cartoon in Chinese
I laughed so hard not even a minute into this, there are TEARS MAN
This english dub is killing me man the Buddha sounds like a really bad imitation of Optimus Prime or Batman, and they made Wukong talk like Sonic and sound like Eli Shane from Slugterra I’m
Ty for this clip youtube algorithm
lol he sounds like sonic
@qukai000 LOL. yeah but remember this is a kid's show! They had to rename the Buddha "the Guardian" to take religious subtext. lolol but your comment did make me laugh haha.
Tjx for this, I cant even find it on google
*experience tranquility*
nice animation, hadn't seen this before anywhere else
Watching the new legend of monkey king in netflix I remember watching the same story when I was a kid
Something about him saying “you can’t escape me Kongo cheapens the deepness of this scene my god why change his name from Sun Wùkōng or at least Monkey?”
Ohhh shit i remember this show 😁😁😁😁 use to have it on vrc once and it was cool
Yeah i remember it good shit 😁
very nice , seem no one able to travel to the end of the Universe by anything even !!!
Damn, the visuals seemed ahead of it's time. Either that or animators don't give a crap anymore. *Cartoon Network sneeze*
I only know of this story from the Overly Sarcastic Productions channel but I never would've expected an anime adaptation.
It's one of the most well known stories in Asia. It has countless anime, movie, TV shows and video games adaptations.
You may have heard a name of one variation of it, it was called "Dragon Ball".