What kind of Buddha is Tang Yan?

In the novel The Journey to the West, Tang Priest was named "Ancient Sandalwood Buddha" after his success in learning Buddhist scriptures. The Tang Priest is the second disciple of the Tathagata, Jin. He was banished to the underworld by the Tathagata because he despised Buddhism. Under the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, he went to the Western Heaven, not far from Wan Li, to learn Buddhist scriptures at the behest of Emperor Taizong. On the way, he got three apprentices, the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing. After eighty-one difficulties, I finally got the scriptures, returned to the Tang Dynasty, and made a positive result.

The prototype of Tang Priest is Xuanzang in Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Luoyang, Henan. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, he followed his second brother to become a monk in Luoyang Jingtu Temple. In the third year of Zhenguan (AD 629), he went to India and brought back 520 clips and 657 volumes of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures.

The Tathagata named the Tang Priest as the eternal Tan Buddha because as early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a Wendong Tower in Chuzhou, dedicated to the eternal Tan Buddha. Wu Cheng'en, the author of The Journey to the West, thinks that the eternal Tan Buddha should be a giant Buddha, so when he created The Journey to the West, he finally made use of the fresh materials in his life to determine the name of Tang Priest as the eternal Tan Gongde Buddha.

Sandalwood Buddha is one of the thirty-five Buddhas, and it is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures Dabaoji Sutra, Volume 90, Youbo Leaving the Society and Dingpuni Sutra. Among the 35 Buddhas, located in the northwest of the Buddha, the body is green, the right hand touches the ground, and the left hand is fixed. Adhering to the merits of this Buddha's name can eliminate past lives and stop the sin of fasting monks.

In The Journey to the West, the Monkey King was named Dou Buddha; Zhu was named the messenger of the net altar; Sha Wujing was named Luohan Golden Body; Bai was named Eight Dragons.