Tianlong Babu

Author: Jin Yong
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: This work is named "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" and tells the story of the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan during the Northern Song Dynasty. The Dali Kingdom was a Buddhist nation, where emperors often revered Buddhism and gave up their thrones to become monks, a very unique phenomenon in Chinese history. The eight types of divine beings and spirits in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" each have unique personalities and supernatural powers. Though they are beings beyond the human world, they also experience worldly joys and sorrows. In this work, there are no divine beings or spirits; instead, the name of this Buddhist scripture is borrowed to symbolize the various personalities and destinies of some real-world characters.