Buddha 2: The Four Encounters by Tezuka, Osamu

Buddha 2: The Four Encounters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932234572)

Vendor: Osamu Tezuka
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Format: Paperback
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Buddha 2: The Four Encounters by Tezuka, Osamu

Buddha 2: The Four Encounters

$14.95
Buddha 2: The Four Encounters by Tezuka, Osamu

Buddha 2: The Four Encounters

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Osamu Tezuka
ISBN-10: 1932234578
ISBN-13: 9781932234572
Publisher: Vertical Comics
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2006
Pages: 411
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.78h x 6.72w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 96
By Osamu Tezuka
By Osamu Tezuka
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Osamu Tezuka (1928-89) is the godfather of Japanese manga comics. He originally intended to become a doctor and earned his degree before turning to what was then a medium for children. His many early masterpieces include the series known in the U.S. as Astro Boy. With his sweeping vision, deftly intertwined plots, feel for the workings of power, and indefatigable commitment to human dignity, Tezuka elevated manga to an art form. The later Tezuka, when he authored Buddha, often had in mind the mature readership that manga gained in the sixties and that had only grown ever since. The Kurosawa of Japanese pop culture, Osamu Tezuka is a twentieth century classic.

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