Yasodhara The Wife Of The Bodhisattva

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438428376

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Yasodharā, the Wife of the Bōdhisattva by Anonim Pdf

What about Buddha's wife? We all know that Prince Siddhartha left his wife and infant son to begin his journey to enlightenment. The Pali canon does not mention the woman he left behind. Yasodharā enters the commentarial tradition around the first century CE and lives on in the folk tradition, growing from a shadowy figure to a nun and arahat (an Enlightened One), even gaining magical powers. In this book, Ranjini Obeyesekere offers a translation of two works from Sri Lanka on this intriguing figure. The Yasodharāvata (The Story of Yasodharā) is a folk poem, whose best-known verses are Yasodharā's lament over the departure of her husband. The Yasodharāpadānaya (The Sacred Biography of Yasodharā) is an account of Yasodharā as a nun capable of miracles, who has traveled through saṃsāra with the Bodhisattva, and who is praised by him. Obeyesekere places these works within their historical and literary context and provides a glossary of Buddhist terms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438428278

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Yasodhara, the Wife of the Bodhisattva by Anonim Pdf

Translations of two works from Sri Lanka on Yasodharaμ, the wife of the Buddha—an allusive and intriguing figure in Buddhist lore and literature.

Author : Ranjini Obeyesekere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sinhalese literature
ISBN : 1441625941

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Yasodhara ̄, the Wife of the Bo ̄dhisattva by Ranjini Obeyesekere Pdf

What about Buddha's wife? We all know that Prince Siddhartha left his wife and infant son to begin his journey to enlightenment. The Pali canon does not mention the woman he left behind. Yasodharā enters the commentarial tradition around the first century CE and lives on in the folk tradition, growing from a shadowy figure to a nun and arahat (an Enlightened One), even gaining magical powers. In this book, Ranjini Obeyesekere offers a translation of two works from Sri Lanka on this intriguing figure. The Yasodharāvata (The Story of Yasodharā) is a folk poem, whose best-known verses are Yasodharā's lament over the departure of her husband. The Yasodharāpadānaya (The Sacred Biography of Yasodharā) is an account of Yasodharā as a nun capable of miracles, who has traveled through samsāra with the Bōdhisattva, and who is praised by him. Obeyesekere places these works within their historical and literary context and provides a glossary of Buddhist terms.

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biographical fiction, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9387693694

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Yasodhara by Vanessa R. Sasson Pdf

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350163188

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Yasodhara and the Buddha by Vanessa R. Sasson Pdf

By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife. Although often marginalized, Yasodhara's narrative here comes to life. Written with a strong feminist voice, we encounter Yasodhara as a fiercely independent, passionate and resilient individual. We witness her joys and sorrows, her expectations and frustrations, her fairy-tale wedding, and her overwhelming devastation at the departure of her beloved. It is through her eyes that we witness Siddhattha's slow transformation, from a sheltered prince to a deeply sensitive young man. On the way, we see how the gods watch over the future Buddha from the clouds, how the king and his ministers try to keep the suffering of the world from him and how he eventually renounces the throne, his wife and newly-born son to seek enlightenment. Along with a foreword from Wendy Doniger, the book includes a scholarly introduction to Yasodhara's narrative and offers extensive notes along with study questions, to help readers navigate the traditional literature in a new way, making this an essential book for anyone wanting to learn about Buddhist narratives.

Author : Janet Surrey,Samuel Shem
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781476710198

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The Buddha's Wife by Janet Surrey,Samuel Shem Pdf

As the category of women’s spirituality continues to grow, The Buddha’s Wife offers to a broad audience for the first time the intimate and profound story of Princess Yasodhara, the wife Buddha left behind, and her alternative journey to spiritual enlightenment. What do we know of the wife and child the Buddha abandoned when he went off to seek his enlightenment? The Buddha’s Wife brings this rarely told story to the forefront, offering a nuanced portrait of this compelling and compassionate figure while also examining the practical applications her teachings have on our modern lives. Princess Yasodhara’s journey is one full of loss, grief, and suffering. But through it, she discovered her own enlightenment within the deep bonds of community and “ordinary” relationships. While traditional Buddhism emphasizes solitary meditation, Yasodhara’s experience speaks of “The Path of Right Relation,” of achieving awareness not alone but together with others. The Buddha’s Wife is comprised of two parts: the first part is a historical narrative of Yasodhara’s fascinating story, and the second part is a “how-to” reader’s companion filled with life lessons, practices, and reflections for the modern seeker. Her story provides a relational path, one which speaks directly to our everyday lives and offers a doorway to profound spiritual maturation, awakening, and wisdom beyond the solitary, heroic journey.

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biographical fiction, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9387693708

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Yashodhara by Vanessa R. Sasson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015067806524

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Yasodaravata by Anonim Pdf

Poem on Yasodhara, wife of Gautama BuddhaSinhalese text with English translation.

Author : Gabriel Constans
Publisher : Robert Reed Pub
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934759295

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Buddha's Wife by Gabriel Constans Pdf

Buddha's Wife is a novel about compassion, inspiration and forgiveness.What happened to Yasodhara and her infant son son, Rahula, after her husband (Siddhartha) left her sleeping in the middle of the night to seek enlightenment?As Yasodhara lies close to death and shares her experiences as a young girl, a wife, a parent and then a nun, her son Rahula, who has been in self-imposed exile in Sri Lanka, attempts a perilous journey with his wife and child to reach his mother before she dies and releases the secrets about his father that he's kept buried inside. Will Rahula and the other woman in Siddhartha's life reach Yasodhara in time to ask for forgiveness? Can anyone ever forgive the unforgivable?Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.-Chitra Divakaruni

Author : Liz Wilson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438447537

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Family in Buddhism by Liz Wilson Pdf

A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia—from biological families to families created in monasteries. The Buddha left his home and family and enjoined his followers to go forth and “become homeless.” With a traditionally celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is often regarded as a world-renouncing religion inimical to family life. This edited volume counters this view, showing how Asian Buddhists in a wide range of historical and geographical circumstances relate as kin to their biological families and to the religious families they join. Using contemporary and historical case studies as well as textual examples, contributors explore how Asian Buddhists invoke family ties in the intentional communities they create and use them to establish religious authority and guard religious privilege. The language of family and lineage emerges as central to a variety of South and East Asian Buddhist contexts. With an interdisciplinary, Pan-Asian approach, Family in Buddhism challenges received wisdom in religious studies and offers new ways to think about family and society.

Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735280649

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Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai Pdf

A breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha—from the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts. In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama—who will later become “the enlightened one,” or the Buddha—an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and spirit. Mansions of the Moon traces the couple’s early love and life together, and then the anguished turmoil that descends upon them both as Siddhartha’s spiritual calling takes over and the marriage partnership slowly, inexorably crumbles. Eventually, Yasodhara is forced to ask what kind of life a woman can lead in ancient India if her husband abandons her—even a well-born woman such as herself. And is there a path she, too, might take towards enlightenment? Award-winning writer Shyam Selvadurai examines these questions with empathy and insight, creating a vivid portrait of a fascinating time and place, the intricate web of power, family and relationships that surround a singular marriage, and the remarkable woman who, until now, has remained a little-understood shadow in the historical record. Mansions of the Moon is an immersive, lively and thrilling feat of literary imagination.

Author : Barbara McHugh, PhD
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948626248

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Bride of the Buddha by Barbara McHugh, PhD Pdf

"This engrossing exploration of gender dynamics, identity, and the spiritual quest for meaning will appeal to Buddhists and general readers alike." —Publishers Weekly “This is an impressive tapestry of history, spiritual philosophy, and literary drama and an edifying look at the patriarchal limitations of Buddhism’s genesis...An intelligently conceived and artistically executed reconsideration of religious history.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bride of the Buddha is an immersive novel about the founding of Buddhism, told in the voice of a woman who would not be excluded from the spiritual quest, nor from the presence of the man whom she loved.” —ForeWord Magazine This is the story of Yasodhara, the abandoned wife of the Buddha. Facing society’s challenges, she transforms her rage into devotion to the path of liberation. The page-turner about a woman’s struggle in an unapologetic religious patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha.

Author : Sunity Devee,Bhuban Mohen Mukerjie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125894135X

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The Life of Princess Yashodara by Sunity Devee,Bhuban Mohen Mukerjie Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Author : Rafe Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614293729

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Before Buddha Was Buddha by Rafe Martin Pdf

Discover how ordinary beings—a deer, a robber, a monkey, a parrot, and more—make up the past lives of the Buddha before he was Buddha. The jataka tales are ancient Buddhist stories found in both the Pali Canon and Sanskrit tradition, recounting the many past lives and ongoing spiritual work of Shakyamuni Buddha on his way to his final birth as Siddhartha Gautama. In them we find the Buddha facing difficulties, making tough choices, doing hard work, falling down and getting back up—the kind of continuing effort of spiritual practice that all beings face. Before Buddha was Buddha focuses on a selection of particular jataka tales in which the Buddha in past lives faces temptations and struggles with self-doubt as well as his own shortcomings. In these tales he’s not beyond life’s messes—its challenges and disasters—but is down in the mix, trudging through the mud with the rest of us. Each story, presented in brief, is followed by a commentary pointing to its relevance to our lives and practice-realization today.

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834841314

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Buddhism beyond Gender by Rita M. Gross Pdf

A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender. At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls “the prison of gender roles”? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the prison of gender roles remain so inescapable? Gross uses the lenses of Buddhist philosophy to deconstruct the powerful concept of gender and its impact on our lives. In revealing the inadequacies involved in clinging to gender identity, she illuminates the suffering that results from clinging to any kind of identity at all.