The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wendy Garling, H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Foreword by)Publish date:2021-03-23Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781611806694ISBN-10:1611806690UPC:9781611806694Book Category:Religion, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Women, Women's StudiesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCT0B2ZYQ0
The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati
Nautilus Book Award Winner The first full biography of Mahaprajapati Gautami, the woman who raised the Buddha--examining her life through stories and canonical records. Mahaprajapati was the only mother the Buddha ever knew. His birth mother, Maya, died shortly after childbirth, and her sister Mahaprajapati took the infant to her breast, nurturing and raising him into adulthood. While there is a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781611806694ISBN-10:1611806690UPC:9781611806694Book Category:Religion, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Women, Women's StudiesBook Topic:HistorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCT0B2ZYQ0
WENDY GARLING is a writer, mother, gardener, independent scholar, and authorized dharma teacher with a BA from Wellesley College and MA in Sanskrit language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha's Life (2016, Shambhala Publications), a groundbreaking new biography of the Buddha that relates his...
Publisher: Shambhala
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