《西游记》中唐僧与孙悟空关系论析

On the Relationship between Monk Tang and Monkey King in Journey to the West

《西游记》以唐僧师徒西行取得真经的故事为主线,塑造了个性鲜明的师徒五人及众多神佛妖魔形象。其中大徒弟孙悟空跟随唐僧时间最长,在取经过程中最忠心与得力。唐僧与孙悟空的关系,在表层中显现为倒置的师徒关系,在深层中实为两种修心之路的重叠。造成深表两层关系的原因在于小说作者深受王阳明心学以及当时社会背景中儒道佛三教合流的影响。

Journey to the West takes the story of Monk Tang and apprentices traveling westward to acquire the true Sutra as the main line,and creates the images of five apprentices and many gods,Buddhas and demons with distinct personalities.Among them,Monkey King,the great apprentice,followed the Monk Tang for the longest time and was the most loyal and effective in the process.The relationship between Monk Tang and Monkey King is an inverted relationship between teachers and apprentices in the surface,and in the deep layer it is the overlap of two ways of cultivating one’s mind.The reason for the deep and superficial relationship is that the novelist was deeply influenced by Wang Yangming’s theory of mind and the confluence of Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism in the social background at that time.