Buddha 4: The Forest of Uruvela -- Osamu Tezuka

The Eisner and Harvey Winner <p/>In this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Buddha slowly discovers that his destiny lies in a path not readily available to him. With fellow ascetics Dhepa who has complete faith in the purifying quality of painful physical ordeals, and Assaji, who can predict everyone's death to the hour, Buddha travels through the kingdom of Magadha into the Forest of Uruvela, where The Middle Path and Enlightenment wait beyond a series of death-defying trials. <p/>Awake under the Pippala tree...<br><br><b>Author:</b> Osamu Tezuka<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vertical Comics<br><b>Published:</b> 11/14/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 376<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.00lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.02h x 6.38w x 0.98d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781932234596<br><b>Age Range:</b> 13-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Osamu Tezuka (1928-89) is the godfather of Japanese manga comics. He originally intended to become a doctor and earned his degree before turning to what was then a medium for children. His many early masterpieces include the series known in the U.S. as <i>Astro Boy</i>. With his sweeping vision, deftly interwined plots, feel for the workings of power, and indefatigable commitment to human dignity, Tezuka elevated manga to an art form. The later Tezuka, when he authored Buddha, often had in mind the mature readership that manga gained in the sixties and that had only grown ever since. The Kurosawa of Japanese pop culture, Osamu Tezuka