[Buddha-l] Best Buddha bio?

[Richard Hayes]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:18 +0800, Piya Tan wrote:

> Osamu's "Buddha" is fiction, and should be taken so. It reflects the
> Buddha's influence
> on a culture.

Surely this is true of ALL accounts of the Buddha's life, beginning with
the ones that appear in the various canons. Biography, like memory, is
one of the most creative enterprises that human beings engage in, and so
biography, like memory, gives us some of the world's best fiction.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico