Word: siddhartha
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Looking in each of the four primary directions a young man faces a choice: an elderly man, a scabrous woman, a corpse or a monk. Rejecting old age, disease and death, the man, Siddhartha, chooses the life of the monk and goes on to enlightenment in one of the key moments in the story of the Buddha. Thoughtful comix readers can relate to such limited choices. Even among the more ambitious works of graphic literature there have been few explorations of spirituality or attempts at creating a distinct morality. But now a radical, epic, ambitious, brilliant option presents itself: Osamu...
...lucky that practicing Buddhists tend to be liberal-minded. For one thing, the key events in the Buddha story appear in "Buddha" like cornerstones on which Tezuka constructs his own fantastic palace of myth and philosophy. The first volume, during which prince Siddhartha is born, barely concerns itself with this event. Instead the majority of the narrative follows Chapra, a talented slave child who hides his caste to become the adopted son of a general. Along the way he befriends Tatta, a cheeky little boy of the lowliest pariah caste. Tatta has the remarkable ability to take over the minds...
...eclecticism?if he is like the Buddha, then he is a decidedly Renaissance Siddhartha?stems from an autodidact's caprice. As an artist, he has felt his way to artistic nirvana through experimentations in brushwork, ink tones, language and the magic that happens when all three are harmoniously combined. He graduated with a degree in English literature from Singapore's Nanyang University before becoming an artist and holding his first exhibition at the city-state's National Library in 1973. He converted to Buddhism that year, and his spiritual epiphany made him give up painting for four years, when...
...difficult for people to accept, I see film as a modern-day tanka (a kind of Buddhist painting). Film has so much power because we're conditioned primarily by what we see and hear." Someday, the rinpoche hopes, he'll make a movie based on the life of Siddhartha, as seen through the eyes of an imprisoned Tibetan monk, but until he can achieve the recognition?and amass the funds?necessary for such an ambitious project, he'll continue to build his r?sum? with smaller, independent movies like this...
...looked like, any more than there is a definitive image of Jesus Christ, who arrived half a millennium later, but the various features artists have given the Buddha over thousands of years help to reflect the endless political and cultural changes in Afghanistan. A 2nd century marble head representing Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepalese prince who after years of futile asceticism sat down and found enlightenment, looks like a Mongol warrior, with moustache and wild curly hair. In most other sculptures in the exhibition the Buddha has fine, often-feminine looks...