Author: Osamu Tezuka

Art & Cover: Osamu Tezuka

Award-winning work: Eisner and Harvey

In the fourth volume of the award-winning graphic biography, Buddha gradually discovers that his destiny lies on a path not immediately accessible to him. Together with the other ascetics, Dhepa, who has absolute faith in the purifying quality of painful bodily trials, and Assaji, who can foresee the death of everyone in time, Buddha travels through the kingdom of Magadha to the Forest of Uruvela, where the Middle Way and Enlightenment await beyond a series of trials that threaten his life.

He awakens beneath the Pippala tree...