Art vs Personality

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

How exactly does someone frame Buddha as an heroic figure? 

He was willing to allow his own person to be denigrated, in order to promote what he thought was the right way to be?   In short, he promoted what he thought was good and right above his own profit and well-being in what appears to have been a very unselfish way.

That alone ought to qualify as heroic--- for are we not all, at least in part, selfish beings down deep?  And to overcome that innate nature is heroic, at least a little bit, I would say.

[Swatopluk]

And not all of Wagner's operas are about 'heroic' stuff.
There is surprisingly little 'action' in most of them and it got less and less over time.
The step from Parzival to Eastern philosophy would not have been that large.
But I have no idea how a Wagnerian Buddha would have sounded
Surely not 'Om mani padme, om mani paadme, om mani paaadme, padme Huuum!!!!!'

[pieces o nine]

Well, here's a concept drawing for his longboat in that opera...