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Sun Wukong is in some ways the Chinese version of Hanuman.

Hanuman is a monkey general, leader of a monkey army, spy and advisor to
Rama, who is a human king and God in his offtime. He is a manifestation of
the Wind.

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> From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>> On the other hand there is the Chinese monkey-king, Sun Wukong, who
>> travelled
>> with a monk from China to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from India.
>>
>>>He acquired the powers of shapeshifting known as the "72
>>> transformations",
>>>supposedly the more versatile and difficult set of skills that allows
>>> him
>>>to
>>>transform into every possible form of existence, including people and
>>>objects.
>>>He also learned about cloud-traveling, including a technique called the
>>>J¨©nd¨¯uy¨²n
>>>which covers 108,000 li (54,000 km or 33,554 mi) in a single flip.
>
> He could save some effort by leaping only 8,544 miles.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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