Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters

Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters
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Publisher : Vertical Inc
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9781945054976
ISBN-13 : 1945054972
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Book Synopsis Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters by : Osamu Tezuka

Download or read book Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters written by Osamu Tezuka and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka's Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one's life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers' attention. Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse's novel or Bertolucci's film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka's approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.


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