Talk:Wukong/@comment-108.87.117.137-20161222200257

I will be "that guy" :   Wu Kong  means "Aware of Emptiness" ... (Emptiness in this case being Shunyata, the essential nature of reality... not "void" or "space lacking objects").... Wu Kong does not mean "monkey king". The idea of "monkey" comes from the full version of the name "Sun Wukong"... Sun being a popular family name (like Sun Tzu, who wrote the Art of War)... but Sun is also how you pronounce the character for "monkey" ( in fact, the characters are very similiar when written as well).. hence, the name Sun was added to reference the warrior-nature, but also as an double meaning joke.. THus, the full name of "Sun Wu Kong"  can be said to mean " Monkey who is aware of Emptiness" .... but again, nowhere in his name does anything mean 'Monkey King".