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Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu

Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu

  • Paperback
  • Edition: 1
  • Author: Osamu Tezuka
  • Publisher: Vertical
  • Release Date: May 2005
  • ISBN-10: 193223456X
  • ISBN-13: 9781932234565

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This is one of the great achievements of the comics medium, a masterpiece by the great ones. Artbomb.net

Customer Reviews

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Dedicated, Iconoclastic, and Provocative Narrative

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We've been reading the eight volumes from beginning to end in our Tezuka fever. Buddha certainly feels like a major work and I would recommend it both as a dedicated approach to the figure of Buddha and as classic of storytelling. But Buddha is most importantly enjoyable to see Tezuka developing some of his most irreverent and personal jokes, interwoven in story.

However, given the subject it lacks the sensationalist and gripping (if repetitive) taste of some of his one mammoth serialized volumes such as MV or the Ode to Kirihito. Buddha is published in English in 8 volumes and things really take shape towards volume 3 or 4, and become quite amazing in terms of the medium towards the final part. If you are not in for the full ride I'd probably recommend other works from him.

Touching and fun series

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I 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 drawing, scripting and framing, Osamu Tezuka is strongly recommended.
Just read it for fun, without too much of an expectation, or looking to find flaws in the book, since it is linked to a man that becomes enlightened and starts a religion. Tezuka does not proselytize. He was at the end of his life, when writing this series, so he could care less. The series is fresh, and has some innocence to it, a quality that is so hard to find these days... I am sorry if the review sounds very one-dimensional, but I had never read anything by Tezuka, and this series was one of the best comic book series I have ever read.

Correction on page count

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I just got this book today and just want to point out that this book has 400 pages, not 256 pages as amazon states.

Profoundly Moving

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Whether 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 being - like you have understood life's great mysteries. Like you have been cleansed by a divine vision. And been utterly entertained in the process. No one should miss this journey. For me - it ranks up there - with War and Peace, Les Miserables, and Oliver Twist as one of the world's great morality tales.

Great Book!

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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.

Granted, the artist has a lot of creativity and this is NOT a historical book, but a story book. (there will be references to modern times like "NYC and LA", so pls. don't confuse this as a "historical" book)

I highly recommend it.