Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Journey to the West, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, List of books about India, Eat, Pray, Love, Gandhi the Man, Spiritual Heritage of India, Maximum City, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, The India Way, The Argumentative Indian, The Goa Inquisition, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Steam House, India Unbound, The Irresistible Revolution, City of Djinns, Begums Thugs and White Mughals, The Age of Kali, Following the Equator, The Emerald Route, India 2020, Urban Decay in India, India: A Wounded Civilization, Rethinking India's Past, Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, A Guide to Heritage of Hyderabad: The Natural and the Built, The Wonder That was India, Empires of the Indus, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, The Hill of Devi, India: A Million Mutinies Now, An Area of Darkness, Encyclopedia of India. Excerpt: Journey to the West ( ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, its authorship has been ascribed to the scholar Wu Cheng'en since the 20th century. In English-speaking countries, the tale is also often known simply as Monkey. This was one title used for a popular, abridged translation by Arthur Waley. The Waley translation has also been published as Adventures of the Monkey God, Monkey: Folk Novel of China, and The Adventures of Monkey, and in a further abridged version for children, Dear Monkey. The novel is a fictionalised account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (s tras). The Bodhisattva Guan Yin, on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of discip...
