#master puti

Author: Celine DaHyeu Kim Format: Art Book Date: 2017 Book Series: Visual Developments Language: English Adaptation: Addition

Summary:

Celine Kim is… an Art Director/ Visual Development Artist currently working at Sony Pictures Animation’s “KPOP: Demon Hunters”. Her past clients include Netflix Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Disney Publishing and Trigger Animation. Born in South Korea, she is currently living in Glendale with her fluffy cat Taro.

Source: https://www.celine-kim.com/visdev

Those who have read Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592) will know that Sun Wukong (孫悟空) studies under the Buddho-Daoist sage, Patriarch Subodhi (Xuputi zushi, 須菩提祖師; a.k.a. “Patriarch Bodhi,” Puti zushi, 菩提祖師), to learn magic, martial arts, medicine, and the secret to immortality. My interest in him led to a lengthy blog article several years ago.

Now, I'm happy to report that I've learned of three(!) folk temples that worship him. Two are in Taiwan and one is in Singapore. Two of the three have verified that his worship was requested by the Monkey King, who is also venerated in these places. I'm waiting for info about the third.

Here are images of the religious statues in the order I learned about them.

1) Palace of Divine Response to the Imperial Decree (of Sanchong District, New Taipei, Taiwan) (Sanchong Yuzhi tianying gong, 三重玉旨天應宮).

Subodhi is generally depicted as a Daoist immortal in popular culture, but this idol draws upon imagery from a Journey to the West poem that describes him in Buddhist terms (see sect. 2.3 of my article for more info).

2) Palace of Treasured Virtue (Baode gong, 寶德宮) (Singapore)

This idol depicts him as a Daoist immortal. Here is a clip of the recent eye-opening ceremony. Thank you to tangki (spirit-medium) "Nick" Thng Fu Jie for the photo.

3) Palace of the Southern Heaven (of Small Liuqiu Island, Pingtung, Taiwan) (Xiaoliuqiu Nantian gong, 小琉球南天宮)

This idol also depicts him as a Daoist immortal. Hopefully I can get a clearer picture minus the ritual cape.

And Book Puti didn’t want people to know he taught Wukong and I know Wukong wouldn’t write his name and location in there so…like what??? Please GIVE ME YOUR THOUGHTS!

OKOK so

yeah, it's true that puti didn't want wukong to say that HE was the one to teach him all of those powers and how to be immortal,

But since we're technically in the past, and the jttw book hasn't been written yet (because it's canon that in lmk there's the jttw book) puti probably thought that the reason why they knew his name was because they just heard of him, like wukong did. (Plus wukong was still there learning)

in the book wukong dosen't actually know where to look for immortality until a random guy says "yeah there's this guy (puti) who can teach ya"

Puti probably thought the same happened to mk and the rest

So in conclusion: puti probably thought they just heard of him, and went there to learn about immortality and everything like everyone there

西遊記-

Thank you for the kind words. As to your questions, you are in luck. Here is my article on Golden Cicada. It describes why he was punished and suggests that he is based on a historical disciple of the Buddha.

And here is my article on the spiritual methods that Monkey uses to attain immortality.