Buddha. 1, Kapilavastu / Osamu Tezuka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989.

Contributor:

Comics Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Buddha English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Gautama Buddha--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Gautama Buddha.

Buddhists--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Buddhists.

Caste--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Caste.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Himalaya Mountains--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Himalaya Mountains.

Nepal--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Nepal.

India--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

India.

Comic books, strips, etc--Japan.

Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.

Japan.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Fiction.

Physical Description:

400 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Other Title:

Kapilavastu

Place of Publication:

New York : Vertical, Inc., [2006]

Summary:

The first volume of Osamu Tezuka's fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha. Introduces Chapra, a slave boy who tries to escape his fate; Chapra's slave mother, who sticks by him no matter what; Tatta, a crazed wild child pariah who communes with animals; and Naradatta, a monk attempting to decipher strange portents of the Buddha's birth.

Contents:

Brahmin

Tatta the urchin

General Budai

The Announcement

Chapra

The King's cup

The Birth

The Contest

All for a cure

The Prophecy

The Judgment

The Wall of death.

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.

"Originally published in Japanese as Budda dai ikkan Kapiravasutu by Ushio Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1987"--T.p. verso.

"The artwork of the original has been produced as a mirror-image in order to conform with the English language"--T.p. verso.

"This work of fiction contains characters and episodes that are not part of the historical record"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

193223456X

9781932234565

OCLC:

67710761