Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters

Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters
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Osamu Tezukaâ€™s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddharthaâ€™s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddhaâ€™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, Tezukaâ€™s Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering oneâ€™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 readersâ€™ attention.

Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesseâ€™s novel or Bertolucciâ€™s film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezukaâ€™s approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.
Country USA
Brand Vertical
Manufacturer Vertical
Binding Hardcover
IsAdultProduct
Height 8.01
Length 6.25
Weight 1.3999353637
Width 1.39
ReleaseDate 2003-11-01

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