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If Tripitaka were to die during Journey to the West, in your opinion, what would happen?

Would he remain dead and reincarnated or be revived? Would they have to restart the cycle again? Through what means do they go through to get the monk and recover the Scriptures? Sorry if this turned out to be a barrage speculative questions😅 I had done no prior research (I will though!) and wanted to hear your take on it

Btw, I love the extensive research that you have compiled to make such informative articles!! they make excellent references and there's literally a well-written article for just about everything. it's nice to read something that was done with so much passion overall

Thank you for the kind words. The novel is my passion. Now onto your questions.

Not counting the Ginseng Fruit that gives Tripitaka a nigh-immortal, steel-like body, Guanyin or even the Buddha himself would prevent the monk from being killed. However, for the sake of argument, there are a number of ways to bring him back, but the methods used depend on the state of his body. For example, if his vessel is destroyed, his disciples could mimic this trick:

Ch. 11 - The soul of a Tang official's long-dead wife is given new life in the form of a recently dead princess. The soul is wed with the new vessel at the request of underworld officials.

The pilgrims would just need to find him a newly deceased body. But if his form is whole enough, there are a few methods:

Ch. 9 - Tripitaka's deceased father, who had been murdered by bandits and thrown into a river, is brought back to life by simply reuniting soul with body. His vessel was preserved with a magic pearl and, along with his self-aware spirit, kept in the undersea dragon kingdom. The Dragon King orders that the two halves be reunited some 18 years later.

Ch. 39 - Monkey brings a foreign king, who had drowned in a well, back to life by placing a magic pill (bestowed by Laozi) into his mouth and blowing the primate's immortal breath into his lungs.

Ch. 97 - Wukong goes to the underworld and asks permission from Boddhisatva Ksitigarbha to take the soul of a recently murdered foreign householder back to earth. He then reunites soul with vessel.

These are the only methods that come to mind. I hope this helps.

Edit: According to the novel, uniting the spirit with the old or newly deceased body apparently heals whatever was originally wrong with the vessel. But Monkey could also heal any damage with his immortal breath provided that Tripitaka's body doesn't have huge chunks missing.

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40 & 20

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Since I either get to choose between going fully insane due to how the Screaming 20s are going, or*doing* something about it, my #renewLMK efforts are gonna start pulling double-duty and get kinda like

And since my last scheduled #renewLMK frames day happened to coincide with Eid, I thought it was a good time to put my frames on hold for a week or so and start something I've been thinking about for a bit:

SHAMELESS POLITICAL CARTOONERY

bcuz as a newly confirmed Broke Buffoon, I can't do a lot about this shit money-wise. And all the companies that can be boycotted due to their financial support of a) the fucking orange thing in the white house and/or b) the fucking ethnic cleansing going on since 2023 are jerks that I already wasn't buying from, cuz I'm BROKE

but I've got a pencil, some paper, and enough bubbling, roiling SPITE in my body that I may keel over dead before reaching 45 from sheer screeching outrage

well as the monkey said, "even just a smidge makes all the difference" so yeah, here's days 235-239

previous reblog threads be here; first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, aaaaaand eighth

almost forgot to include links to all the donation options cited!

...and i actually DID forget to include links for eSIMS donations in my actual drawings (HECK!!!) so we'll start there!

Connecting Humanity's webpage (https://connecting-humanity.org/)

Palestine Toolkit's eSIM donation guide (https://palestinetoolkit.org/mobilise-from-home/esims-for-gaza-faq-and-guide/), with a link to a guide by @gothhabiba on google docs

UNRWA donation page ,which I guess is tax deductible if you do it from the US? (https://donate.unrwa.org/int/en/general)

UN OCHA donation page (https://www.unocha.org/our-funding)

UN Crisis Relief's Gaza donation page (https://crisisrelief.un.org/en/donate-opt-crisis)

Medicins San Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders' Gaza-Israel War page (https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-war)

PCRF donation page (https://give.pcrf.net/campaign/gaza-relief-and-recovery/c730506)

Alliance for Middle East Peace donation page (https://www.allmep.org/donate-now/)

International Committee of the Red Cross page on what they do in Israel and Palestine (https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/israel-and-occupied-territories)

Gaza Soup Kitchen (https://gazasoupkitchen.org/)

American Friends Service Committee's Gaza relief page (https://afsc.org/news/afscs-gaza-emergency-relief)

Care For Gaza campaign on Chuffed (https://chuffed.org/project/careforgaza)

and last but absolutely not least, @gazavetters' list of verfied Palestinian GoFundMes!

GazaVetters

oh, and Boycott Israel's list of companies to shun (https://boycott-israel.org/boycott.html)

Boycott Israel - A Simple Boycott List

A simple boycott list of Israeli and global firms active in Israel, guiding purchases to pressure the government and uphold international la

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