The Acrobat and other Buddhist Tales
By Anant Pai
2010
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Average Rating
36
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This Amar Chitra Katha comprises of multiple stories. The first, 'The Acrobat', is about Ugrasena's transforming 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 benefits 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 Gautami about the inevitability of death.
Avg Rating
3.79
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Author
Anant Pai
Author · 142 books
Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director. Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.
