surrael: the story was fictionalised by the 10th C and formalised as Hsiyoji, Journey to the West surrael: more recently known in the west as Monkey! .. possibly the best television ever produced surrael: on this planet at least surrael: Xuan's actual text (tranlsated) is also online surrael: his journey probably looked (nothing) like this surrael: apart from the jaunt around india, which might (not) have looked like this surrael: this type of thing was the final outcome... surrael: yes, for some reason the story calls the priest tripitaka, which is actually what the set of three sets of Pali Scrolls is called .. monkey magic surrael: surrael: sadly the young woman who played him in the tv series died a few years later :( surrael: "From that time there have come down clear records, annals of events; though distant, we may hear the previous doings (of eminent men), or gather their words from the records of their disciples."