The Tang Priest in Journey to the West is the reincarnation of one of the top ten disciples under the throne of Buddha.

Tang Priest, Jin Chan is also reincarnated. Look at the last paragraph.

Although Tang Priest and the Monkey King are nominally apprentices, they are actually one. That rude and maverick western believer. He was banished to earth a thousand years ago. His cowardly, refined and Buddha-like side became the Tang Priest, and his unruly side became the immortal stone and Wukong. Bodhi spent ten lives on earth in order to achieve Wukong. On the other hand, Tang Yan spent more time trying to complete his tenth quest for Tao. Wukong and Tang Priest are ten generations of disciples! They are simply two sides of a person's good and evil. That man is the golden cicada!

When the Tang Priest and his party passed by, Zhenyuanzi happened to be invited by Jade Qing Yuanshi Tianzun to talk about "Mixed Yuan Daoguo" at Tianmiluo Palace in Shangqing. When I went, I took forty-six disciples with me, and specifically told two disciples left behind, Qingfeng and Yue Ming, "I have an old friend who will pass by in a few days, so don't neglect him. You can beat two of my ginseng fruits and eat them with him to show your old feelings. " The second disciple learned that Master's old friend was a monk who went to the Western Heaven to worship Buddha for Buddhist scriptures, and said, "Confucius said," Don't share the same sky, don't share the same sky. I'm waiting for Taiyi Xuanmen. How can I know that monk? Zhenyuanzi explained: "That monk is the reincarnation of Jin Chan, the second disciple of the Buddha in the West. Five hundred years ago, I met him in the' Lanpen Club'. He once handed tea in person, and the Buddha respected me, so he was an old friend. "