Chinese Lore Podcast

Journey 013: I Shalt Not Kill?

Sun Wukong and his new master have a difference of opinion on when it's ok for a Buddhist monk to spill someone's brains and loot their clothes.

Journey Supplemental 003: Body Snatchers

All's well that ends well, except for the princess whose soul gets dragged out of her mortal coil and hustled off to hell.

Journey 012: Demons, Tigers, Monkeys, Oh My

Everybody kept telling me how dangerous the journey to the West was, but seriously how bad can it possibly ... oh my god what are those things and what are they doing to my men?!!!

Journey Supplemental 002: To Hell and Back

Somehow a trip to the underworld adds decades to the Tang emperor's life.

Journey 011: Divine Mission

Guanyin crashes the emperor's Buddhist party and tells all the monks of the East what she really thinks of their scriptures.

Journey Supplemental 001: When It Rains

We embark on a three-episode mini-arc to find out why the Tang emperor was convening a big gathering of monks.

Journey 010: Miracle Worker

The blind regains sight, and the dead rises. Is it a miracle ... or a zombie apocalypse?

Journey 009: Origin Story

The Buddha shows how far he would go (or make someone else go) to avoid paying to ship some scriptures to the East.

Journey 008: Handover of Heaven

Sun Wukong makes a high-stakes wager with heaven's latest mediator.

Journey 007: Crossover Clashes

Sun Wukong proves to be such a handful that heaven has to go get a hero from another novel to take him on.