Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu

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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 take hold of of the topic 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. Quite 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 once a humanist Quite than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus isn’t an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse’s novel or Bertolucci’s film is comparable on this regard; if truth be told, Tezuka’s approach is relatively irreverent in that it comprises something that Western commentators regularly eschew, namely, humor.

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