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Books : Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu (Buddha)In association with Amazon.comby: Osamu Tezuka  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741.5 EAN: 9781932234565 ISBN: 193223456X Label: Vertical Manufacturer: Vertical Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: May 25, 2005 Publisher: Vertical Release Date: May 02, 2006 Studio: Vertical Sales Rank: 44114 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This is one of the great achievements of the comics medium, a masterpiece by the great ones. Artbomb.net Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Touching and fun seriesI have just finished reading the complete series for the third time. I am always amazed how Tezuka managed to make a book about Buddha which is funny, touching and without pandering for religious groups. It is just the amazing journey of a man to find within himself the promise of peace and self preservation. Tezuka has made the book very witty, and even adlibs here and there with funny characters. If you want to add some variety to your reading, this final series by the brilliant master of ... Read More Rating:  - Correction on page countI just got this book today and just want to point out that this book has 400 pages, not 256 pages as amazon states. Rating: - Profoundly MovingWhether the story of the Buddha, and the side-stories, and the tributaries of those side-stories, are familiar to you or not - Tezuka's take on them will affect you profoundly. He is not simply a great storyteller - he has exploited the limits of the comic book form by using sequential art and words to convey the Buddha's message with gripping intensity, humor, and utter mastery. It is such good fun that the philosophy kind of sneaks up on you. You leave each volume with an immense sense of well ... Read More Rating: - Great Book! The last time I got excited about a book about Buddha/Zen Buddhism was the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and Thich Nhat Hhah books. I learned how to read through comic books and I think this is a great series to learn about the life of Buddha. Simple, like Buddhism, and nicely drawn. Exciting and in the style of manga, it will keep both young adults and adults captured in a biography. This book is great for folks who want to learn about Buddha but who hate reading dry biographies. Read More Rating: - Herman Hesse MangaBiographies of holy people are difficult things to write. A writer can choose to regurgitate the official story in the scriptures, but that approach has little hope of transcending the source material or adding anything new. If the author wants to use the hook of human foibles that makes stories of lesser beings so engaging, he or she runs the risk of angering church patriarchs--just ask Martin Scorsese. Besides, there may not be any human foibles in the religious texts to use, forcing the writer ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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