The Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
Classical Stories · No. 3 — The stone monkey who challenged the sky.
- Classical Stories
- 48 min
- Ages 8–13
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
A monkey hatched from a stone becomes king of the monkeys, learns seventy-two transformations and the cloud somersault, and takes a magic staff from the Dragon King's palace. Offended by heaven's small insults, Sun Wukong crosses out his own name in the book of death, eats the peaches of immortality, wrecks the Jade Emperor's banquet, and defeats army after army — until he makes a wager with the Buddha that even a cloud somersault cannot win.
Why it's worth a listen
Pure joyful chaos: a stone monkey with a magic staff out-fights every army heaven can send, erases his own name from the book of death, and eats the peaches of immortality for lunch. It is the funniest, fastest episode of the season — right up until one wager with the Buddha turns all that power into a question about wisdom.
A question to keep
What happens when great power arrives before wisdom does?
Chapters
- The Stone Egg and the Waterfall King
- The Search for Wisdom
- The Weapon of the Deep and the Book of Death
- The Insults of Heaven
- The Duel with Erlang Shen
- The Eight Trigrams Furnace
- The Hand of the Buddha