As Red Boy
Sudhana is the Buddhist name of Red Boy, also known as Honghai'er (simplified Chinese: 红孩儿; traditional Chinese: 紅孩兒; pinyin: Hónghái'ér), an antagonist in the classical novel Journey to the West. Red Boy was the son of Princess Iron Fan and Bull Demon King. As an exchange for punishment after kidnapping Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie, as well as usurping Guanyin's lotus seat in irreverence, Red Boy surrendered to Guanyin and became her attendant.
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“At her best
she is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajole
by time. Where I go, she goes.”
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“The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings. 3:25-37.
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