Buddha 2: Four Encounters: v. 2 (Buddha: The Four Encounters) - Hardcover

Tezuka, Osama

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9781932234442: Buddha 2: Four Encounters: v. 2 (Buddha: The Four Encounters)

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ISBN 10: 1932234446 ISBN 13: 9781932234442

Publisher: Vertical Inc., 2003

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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."

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Review:

"Infused with humor and history, the epic of Siddhartha is perhaps Osamu Tezuka's crowning acheivement and illustrates why, without irony, Tezuka is referred to as 'The King of Japanese Comics'." -" LA Weekly""Buddha is one of Tezuka's true masterpieces. We're lucky to have this excellent new edition in English." - "Scott McCloud," author of "Understanding Comics""In handsome volumes designed by Chip Kidd, the Vertical books present Tezuka at his best." - "National Post
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""Buddha" is an engrossing tale. The armchair philosopher, the devout Buddhist, the casual manga fan - this book satisfies all with its tale of humanism through sequential art, and definitely earns its place on a bibliophile's bookshelf." -"Anime Insider""This is one of the greatest acheivements of the comics medium, a masterpiece by one of the greats." -"Artbomb.net""In Tezuka's world, the exquisite collapses into the goofy in a New York minute, the goofy into the melodramatic, the melodramatic into the brutal, and the brutal into the sincerely touching. The suprising result is a work wholly unique and downright fun." -"Time Out NY""""Tezuka's Buddha is a striking and memorable confluence of ancient wisdom and contemporary popular art." -"Yoga Journal
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All Life is sacred...

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