Word: kapilavastu
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...English translation of "Buddha." Originally appearing in serialized form during the 1970s, "Buddha," an imaginative re-telling of the story the 6th-century B.C. teacher and spiritual leader, will be collected in eight stylish hardcover volumes. Two volumes appear at a time in the fall and spring. Volume one, "Kapilavastu," appeared this month. Volume two, "The Four Encounters," is due at the beginning of November. Volumes three and four will hopefully come out in April and June...
Still, the Buddha understood the theatrical possibilities. In his native city of Kapilavastu, the Buddha rose in the air, emitted flames and streams of water from his body, and walked in the sky. In order to convince his relatives of his spiritual powers, he cut his body into pieces, let his head and limbs fall to the ground, and then joined them all together again before the astonished audience...
...well as an elaborate system of "reminders" of the sage himself. A reminder could be a stupa that possessed no relics but was a replica of one that did. There were also small clay tablets that recalled the sites of the four Great Events in Buddha's life-Kapilavastu, where he was born; Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment under the Bo tree; Sarnath, where he "set the Wheel of Doctrine spinning"; and Kusinagara, where he died. For a long time the Buddhists considered it unthinkable that anyone should reproduce the figure of Buddha himself...
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