The Monkey King is back and I’m sure he’ll have no issues taking orders from a lifelong vegetarian pacifist monk.

This episode features animal death around 12:00 to 13:50, human death around 26:00 and torture/corporeal punishment around 35:00 to 36:30.

Links:

“Āyatana” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Āyatana

Episode artwork from A Modern Journey to the West by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: https://yoshitoshi.net/series/journeywest.html

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