Prajapati Gotami: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (Created page with ''''Prajapati Gotami''' (Skt. Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī; Tib. སྐྱེ་དགུའི་བདག་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་གཽ་ཏ་མའི་, Wyl. skye…') |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
She was the first woman to request ordination from the Buddha and to join the [[Sangha]]. | She was the first woman to request ordination from the Buddha and to join the [[Sangha]]. | ||
[[Category:Three Jewels]][[Category:Historical Masters]] | [[Category:Three Jewels]][[Category:Historical Masters]][[Category:Buddha's Contemporaries]] | ||
Revision as of 15:22, 23 March 2011
Prajapati Gotami (Skt. Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī; Tib. སྐྱེ་དགུའི་བདག་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་གཽ་ཏ་མའི་, Wyl. skye dgu'i bdag mo chen mo gau ta ma'i) was both the Buddha's maternal aunt and adoptive mother. She raised him after her sister, Queen Maya (Mahāmāyā), the Buddha's birth mother, died.
She was the first woman to request ordination from the Buddha and to join the Sangha.