FRENCH LANGUAGE The book aims to highlight the richness of iconographic and stylistic traditions relating to the representation of the exemplary and edifying life of the founder of the fourth largest religion in the world in terms of numbers of faithful. Narrating the destiny of a man of exceptional intellectual and moral qualities, the life of the Buddha unfolds like a gesture of the mind, alternately concrete and banal or miraculous and transcendent. Without forgetting to recall the circumstances of the appearance of Buddhism in India, around the 5th century BC, nor to mention the content