White Dragon Horse

The four heroes of Journey to the West, Tang Sanzang on the second from the left, riding on the White Dragon Horse. Painted decotation in the Long Corridor at the Summer Palace in Beijing, China

The White Dragon Horse, known as Bai Long Ma (Chinese: 白龍馬; pinyin: Bái Lóng Mǎ; Wade–Giles: Pai² Lung²-ma¹; lit. 'White Dragon Horse'), and Yü Long (Chinese: 玉龍; pinyin: Yù Lóng; Wade–Giles: Yü⁴ Lung²; lit. 'Jade Dragon'), in Chinese, is one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.[1] He is Tang Sanzang's steed who later became one of the Babu Tianlong Guangli Bodhisattva (Chinese: 八部天龍廣力菩薩; pinyin: Bābù Tiānláng Guǎnglì Púsà; Wade–Giles: Pa¹-pu⁴ T'ien¹-lung² Kuang³-li⁴ P'u²-sa⁴; lit. 'Celestial Dragon Extensive-strength Bodhisattva of the Eight Legions') at the end of novel.[2][3]

  1. ^ "蔡詩萍／花甲美魔男之「爸話西遊」之十一". Yahoo! News (in Chinese). 2 December 2019.
  2. ^ 西遊記: Journey to the West (in Chinese). Google Publishing. 2014.
  3. ^ Fair, Collinson; Wu Cheng-en (2005). The Journey to the West. Vol. 2. Silk Pagoda. ISBN 978-1-59654-251-8.