Headscratchers / Journey to the West

• Why dose Buddha have such power? I mean is that I have been studding Buddhism and a lot of the morals and ideas to it is about not warring about the problems or matters in the world threw enlightenment. So why is that in this Book Buddha has enough power to hold the universe in his palm and take down the Monkey King?
  • It’s likely because of the version of Buddhism popular in China at the time: Zen Buddhism, which varied heavily from the original. Instead of being freed from the cycle of reincarnation, the Buddha instead kept his total enlightenment and became one with the universe, essentially becoming a god.