Hm. You know, there's something of an ongoing severely missed opportunity to really do a deep dive exploration into how "human" (i.e. messed up, hypocritical, & fully aware of this while trying to be better) Tang Sanzang kind of is given that he yells at and tortures Sun Wukong for killing bandits that wanted to kill them even though in his own backstory the monk was okay with having the bandits that killed his dad and assaulted his mom get tortured to death.

I mean, if you want to focus purely on compassion the Monkey King quickly bonks the bandits that attack him to death. Tang Sanzang and his family, however, literally had one bandit be killed by getting sliced with a sword like a hundred times before they offered the heart and liver of the other as libations after having them torn out of this guy while he was still alive.