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Quotation from Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven) by Wu Cheng'en
“The five pillars became a mountain joined together, and were called the Five Elements mountain, and Buddha gently covered him up under the mountain.”
Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter VII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913)
The Monkey has leapt to what he thought were five pillars at the end of the world, only to find they were Buddha's fingers; the pillars become his prison for five hundred years.
Citation: "The five pillars became a mountain joined together, and were called the Five Elements mountain, and Buddha gently covered him up under the mountain." — Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter VII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913). (id journey-to-the-west-a-mission-to-heaven-q4)
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