"Buddha & Shakespeare" recounts, in one of the more dramatic narratives that you will likely ever come across, the epic nature of both Love and War. Each of which befalls us, most often unexpectedly.

It is the story, then, of our being-human, as told through the lives of two princes who come to find themselves caught up in the throes of battles that seem to have found them, as much or more than they have found those battles.

One prince from the East: Siddhartha, Guatama, the Buddha-to-be.

The other prince from the West: Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, heir to Elsinore.

Both of...