Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters

Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1945054972
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
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.

Buddha 2: The Four Encounters

Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Vertical Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
A story about a biography of Shiddhartha, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

The Four Noble Truths

Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007518870
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
This book contains the essential guide to some of the central Buddhist teachings based on the recent UK lectures by his holiness.

Siddhartha

Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha

Author: Daniel Ingram
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1780498152
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 715

Book Description
The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise. Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.

Buddha 5: Deer Park

Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1932234608
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the fifth installment of manga-godfather Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, engagement with death imparts the lesson of life's sanctity. In a Machiavellian rise to power, Devadatta, a rogue aristocrat, incites war between two kingdoms that will leave thousands dead. King Bimisara of Magadha, fearing death his son's own hand, withdraws fatherly love. The true measure of the Buddha's divinity will turn out to be a test of diplomacy - the power of words.

Analytical Buddhism

Author: M. Albahari
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230800548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Does the self - a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist? Drawing on Western philosophy, neurology and Theravadin Buddhism, this book argues that the self is an illusion created by a tier of non-illusory consciousness and a tier of desire-driven thought and emotion, and that separateness underpins the self's illusory status.

Buddha: Volume 8: Jetavana

Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1947194038
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 367

The Life of the Buddha

Author: Bhikkhu Nyanamoli
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 9552400635
Category : Buddhists
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Among the numerous lives of the Buddha, this volume may well claim a place of its own. Composed entirely from texts of the Pali Canon, the oldest authentic record, it portrays an image of the Buddha which is vivid, warm, and moving. Chapters on the Buddha's personality and doctrine are especially illuminating, and the translation is marked by lucidity and dignity throughout.

Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha and Other Encounters in China and Tibet

Author: Lincoln Kaye
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374299989
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
Explores the daily lives of traveling workers in modern China, including farmhands, actors, a policeman, a muckraking lawyer, and others, considering the hardships of their ways of life as well as their spiritual quests. 15,000 first printing.