Sun Wukong
A Taoist character based on Subhūti, Puti Zhushi, appears in the Chinese classical novel "Journey to the West", as the teacher of the Monkey King Sun Wukong. The story of Sun Wukong first meeting Subhūti was a play on the Zen story of Huineng meeting Hongren, as told in the Platform Sūtra of Zen Buddhism. Because of the role that Subhūti plays in the story, his name has remained familiar in Chinese culture.