Boeddha

Een eerste ontmoeting met de slavenzoon Chapra, de wilde Tatta, het kind dat spreekt en leeft met de dieren en af en toe zelfs, letterlijk, in de huid van een dier kruipt. En natuurlijk met Siddharta. In avonturenvorm vervat, er komt veel aan bod: jaloezie, de spanning tussen individuen, de gewoonte van het menselijke rollenspel, het zoeken naar eerlijkheid, tegenover jezelf en de ander. (bron: Stripweb)

Vous allez faire la connaissance de Tatta, le petit
voyou, de Chaprah, l'esclave qui deviendra guerrier, du général Boudhaï, du vénérable Asitta, de son disciple Naradatta... Et bien d'autres personnages qui seront les témoins de la naissance du prince Siddharta au château de Kapilavastu. Ne manquez pas cette formidable découverte de la vie de Bouddha racontée par le maître du manga japonais, Osamu Tezuka ! (bron: Stripweb)

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. (bron: Stripweb)