more on Buddha
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:15 amI was trying to find a discussion on Buddha to add to, but seems the major discusssion has been hardcover, softcover and who's finished it. It just happens that I had trouble locating #5, and after quite some time started over.. So maybe I'm behind you all.
As I read in Buddha about the shudra and pariah, I can't help but think of Japanese's analogous group, the Burakumin.
Outside of Japan, people are not well aware of Japan's "status discrimination".
My feeling about Tezuka is that he was a social provocateur. I could believe that a major reason he wrote Buddha, and especially the style in which he did, was to make people think about social discrimination and the maltreatment of the Burakumin in particular.
David
As I read in Buddha about the shudra and pariah, I can't help but think of Japanese's analogous group, the Burakumin.
Outside of Japan, people are not well aware of Japan's "status discrimination".
My feeling about Tezuka is that he was a social provocateur. I could believe that a major reason he wrote Buddha, and especially the style in which he did, was to make people think about social discrimination and the maltreatment of the Burakumin in particular.
David