by Goolbai Gunasekara Excerpted from Chosen Ground: The Clara Motwani Saga (For much of the information in this chapter I am indebted to Visakha students of the years between 1933 and 1945) Curiously enough, Mother was not the first American principal of Visakha Vidyalaya. As Principal of the first Buddhist school for girls, situated in […]
By Uditha Devapriya The Buddha’s response to Mahaprajapati Gotami’s request for permission to enter the Buddha Sasana forms one of the more controversial episodes in the Buddhist pantheon. The story, as told in countless narratives and chronicles, essentially makes his acceptance of a female Buddhist or Bhikkuni order contingent on two things: his stepmother making […]