駕雲而去 Guanyin Brings Him Back
那觀音在傍聽說,即合掌謝了聖恩,領悟空,輒駕雲而去。隨後木叉行者、白鸚哥一同趕上。不多時,到了中途草舍人家。沙和尚看見,急請師父拜門迎接。那观音在傍听说,即合掌谢了圣恩,领悟空,辄驾云而去。随后木叉行者、白鹦哥一同赶上。不多时,到了中途草舍人家。沙和尚看见,急请师父拜门迎接。
逐句解 Line by line
Guanyin, standing by and hearing this, joined her palms at once, gave thanks for the holy grace, took charge of Wukong and straightway mounted the clouds and went.
在傍 takes bàng, held that way across the project. 輒 means straightway, without pausing. 領悟空 — she takes charge of him, the word used for escorting somebody in one's keeping.
Behind them Mokṣa the Pilgrim and the white parrot came up together.
The white parrot is Guanyin's attendant, and turns up wherever the novel gives her retinue in full.
In no great while they came to the thatched cottage of the household midway on the road.
草舍 takes shè, a dwelling, where the automatic reading gives shě, to give up. 中途 takes zhōng. The party is back at the farmhouse it left many passages ago.
Sha Monk saw them, and hurriedly asked his master to come to the door and receive them.
拜門迎接, to bow at the door and receive — the courtesy owed to a Bodhisattva arriving in person.
The return is quiet and quick, and the geography closes a circle. The chapter opened with Wukong and Sha Monk leaving Potalaka; it ends with Guanyin personally delivering Wukong to a farmhouse on the westward road. Every court in the cosmos has been visited in between.
領悟空 is the word to notice. Guanyin does not accompany him. She takes charge of him. The Buddha promised 我教觀音送你去 — I shall have Guanyin see you there — and the delivery is carried out as an escort, because Wukong has just said he does not expect to be taken back.