The lantern festival with the three oily Buddhas.

Journey to the West: The Podcast

English - June 25, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 23.9 MB - ★★★ - 21 ratings
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Previous Episode: Chapter 90: Did anybody lose a nine-headed lion?

Next Episode: Chapter 92: Who's harder to control, a runaway rhino or a pillaging army?

This week the crew attend an annual lantern festival that's so expensive that the townsfolk must starve to afford it. We wonder about what happens to old religious traditions and whether they ever really go away.