Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the <i>Xiyou ji</i>

LI Sher-shiueh

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LI Sher-shiueh. Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the Xiyou ji[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 7-32. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236301

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LI Sher-shiueh. Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the Xiyou ji[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 7-32. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236301

LI Sher-shiueh. Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the Xiyou ji[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 7-32. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236301

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LI Sher-shiueh. Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the Xiyou ji[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 7-32. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236301

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Patriarch Subodhi's Oral Formulas and Their Related Images in the Xiyou ji

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236301

LI Sher-shiueh^,

Academia Sinica

Received Date: 2023-06-28
Accepted Date: 2023-08-21

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The novel Xiyou ji deals with Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India for Buddhist scriptures. Curiously, the story does not begin with the appearance of Xuanzang; instead, it starts with the birth and the quest for immortality of one of his fictitious disciples, Sun Wukong. As one gets into the crucial role Wukong plays in the novel, one finds that Subodhi's oral instructions, and other major, related images as well, may have to do with one of the multiple layers of allegory the story of Wukong develops: the allegory of internal alchemy, the search for an elixir capable of prolonging life indefinitely. The allegory is reinforced in the second chapter when Subodhi recites for Wukong oral formulas that allude to internal alchemy. One of the rhetorical devices of these instructions highlighted is paired images with strong sexual intimations. This paper attempts to decode those and other relevant images in the oral formulas, pointing out their significance in the allegorical framework of the novel.Furthermore, this paper ends with the poetics that lies behind these paired images: “piyu,” an analogy, simile, or more precisely, metaphor. Should one grasp the connotations of these elixir images related to Subodhi's oral formulas, the adept of internal alchemy suggests that one forget them, since they are no more than piyu. In other words, they are not real.
- Journey to the West,
- Subodhi's formulas,
- Sun Wukong,
- internal alchemy metaphors,

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