Description: Buddha's Wife is a fictional book about Indian culture, tradition, romance and spiritual history about Buddha, his wife Yasodhara, women, nuns, family, religion, meditation, India, Sri Lanka, women's rights and transformation.
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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 , international best-selling author and American Book Award winner, whose books include Mistress of Spices , Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions .
This book is an awesome read, insightful, woman loving - a challenge to all spiritual seekers to rethink, re-vise, and dream anew. -- bell hooks , professor, activist and author of national bestseller all about love .
A remarkable recreation of Yasodhara’s life. It is very readable and engages readers in the complexity of issues many women have raised about Gotama the Buddha’s life and practice. -- Katherine Thanas , Abbot, Santa Cruz Zen Center.