The Journey to the West Books 28 and 29

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book contains the full text of the 28th and 29th stories in our 31-volume </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Journey to the West </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>series for people learning to read Chinese. The stories told here are unchanged from the original books except for minor editing and reformatting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The Dharma Destroying Kingdom</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Tangseng and his three disciples enter a city whose king has vowed to kill 10000 Buddhist monks and has already finished off 9996. The travelers must avoid being killed and figure out how to show the king the error of his ways. Later the Monkey King Sun Wukong battles demons who use the Dividing the Petals of the Plum Flower trick to kidnap Tangseng.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Nine Headed Lion </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the travelers find themselves in a kingdom where it hasn't rained for three years because the prefect has angered the King of Heaven. Sun Wukong brings rain and of course trouble. Later the disciples' magic weapons are stolen by a nearby lion demon. When they go to retrieve them they encounter an entire family of lion demons including a nine-headed lion with vast powers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These three stories are written in Simplified Chinese and use a total of 1199 different Chinese words. Each page of Chinese has a facing page of pinyin. The book includes a full English translation and glossary. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Free audio versions of the three stories are available for free on YouTube's Imagin8 Press channel and on our website www.imagin8press.com.</span></p>