Category : Comics | Year : 2010
BUDDHA AND THE ACROBAT DOUBLE DIGEST Screens: 290, Full Color, Panel by Panel BUDDHA King Suddhodana was at his wit's end. He had surrounded his handsome young heir with comfort and riches, love and respect, but Prince Siddhartha was still not content. One night, he abandoned his family. Exchanging his royal robes for a begging bowl, his comfortable palace for the shade of a tree, Siddhartha became the Buddha - the wise, the supreme king of kings. THE ACROBAT AND OTHER BUDDHIST TALES This Amar Chitra Katha comprises of multiple stories. The first, "The Acrobat", is about Ugrasena's transformation from the royal treasurer's son to an acrobat to a follower of Buddha. In the second story, "The Harvest", Buddha teaches a farmer about the benfits of detachment. Buddha explains the ills of desire to the young Prince Kumara in the third story, "The Golden Maiden". And finally, "Buddha and Krisha Gautami" is one of the more famous stories, wherein Buddha teaches the distraught about the inevitability of death.