postgres Patriarch Subhuti, fully named Patriarch Subhuti of the Xu, is Sun Wukong's teacher in Journey to the West. He teaches the seventy-two transformations, long life, and the cloud somersault, and he forbids Wukong to reveal the school. The article gives several accounts of who he really is, so the title stays. /en/people/subhuti.html person_cn_q10509106 person subhuti 菩提祖师

Patriarch Subhuti, fully named Patriarch Subhuti of the Xu, is Sun Wukong's teacher in Journey to the West. He teaches the seventy-two transformations, long life, and the cloud somersault, and he forbids Wukong to reveal the school. The article gives several accounts of who he really is, so the title stays.

published category-literature category-people category-fictional-characters tag-fictional-character tag-classics tag-four-great-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10509106 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%A9%E6%8F%90%E7%A5%96%E5%B8%88 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T17:19:24+08:00 user:admin 7 Patriarch Subhuti is a character in the novel Journey to the West. Wikidata names him Subhuti. The cited article says the full name is Patriarch Subhuti, with the Xu syllable. It then lists several real identities, including the Tathagata, Guanyin, and the Most High Lord Lao. They do not agree, so the title stays Patriarch Subhuti. This entry records him as a figure of Journey to the West.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## The pupil He takes Sun Wukong as a disciple and teaches the seventy-two transformations, deathlessness, and the cloud somersault. He foresees that Wukong will make trouble, and he requires secrecy: the school and the old story of the training must never be mentioned. In chapter 1 a woodcutter points the Handsome Monkey King the way, and Wukong then meets him. The book presents him as a great immortal versed in both Daoism and Buddhism, of high powers and many disciples. People of the hills and wilds receive his teaching. He leads them toward the Way and also teaches ways of strengthening the body and calming the mind.[^zhwiki] ## The name, and later guesses Commentators say Subhuti was a great disciple of the Tathagata, known for understanding emptiness, and that the Diamond Sutra is what the Buddha said to Subhuti. The name was not originally a title among immortals, and some take that to mean the immortal and the Buddha are one. The article also gathers guesses about who he really was. Some say the Tathagata, using among other things Wukong's later thought that he bowed only to the Buddha, to Guanyin, and to the teacher of the Mountain of the Two Boundaries, together with the Tathagata's awakening under the bodhi tree. Other guesses are Guanyin, the Most High Lord Lao, a junior fellow of the Tathagata, Subhuti among the Tathagata's ten great disciples, and a portrait of the author. Popular talk adds the Daoist Zhunti and the Primordial Heavenly Worthy. The article says the last of these mixes Journey to the West with Investiture of the Gods. The television series The Lotus Lantern and its prequel present Yuding Zhenren as an earlier or true form of Patriarch Subhuti. None of these accounts supplies one personal name to replace the title.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Name: Patriarch Subhuti[^wikidata] - Full form in the article: Patriarch Subhuti, with the Xu syllable[^zhwiki] - Description: a character in Journey to the West, Sun Wukong's teacher[^wikidata][^zhwiki] - Appears in: [[work_cn_q70784|Journey to the West]][^zhwiki] /people/subhuti.html en zh en Character in Journey to the West true mythological figure tag-fictional-character fictional-character Fictional character Fictional or literary characters from classic works. 1026 tag-classics classics Classics Classic works and novels of pre-modern China. 1077 tag-four-great-classics four-great-classics Four Great Classical Novels Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and their characters. 572 relation_cnworks_depicts_q70784_q10509106 work_cn_q70784 depicts person_cn_q10509106 work_cn_q70784 wikidata Related works work_cn_q70784 Journey to the West /en/works/journey-to-west.html true 7 2026-10-29T17:19:24+08:00 当前版本 true /en/people/subhuti/at/7.html en zh en is_fictional Fictional yes person_category Person category mythological figure disambiguation Disambiguation Character in Journey to the West 1 depicts true Related works 1