What You Can Learn from the Buddha’s Wife and Aunt | Pamela Weiss

What You Can Learn from the Buddha’s Wife and Aunt | Pamela Weiss

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

The women around the Buddha dropped a ton of useful wisdom, but I suspect you haven’t heard much about that. Why? Why have these women been largely written out of history? And what do these hidden figures have to teach us? We’re diving in on that today with Pamela Weiss, dharma teacher in the Zen and Theravada traditions and author of A Bigger Sky. Last week, we had on Bhikkhu Bodhi, who talked about the words of the Buddha. You might think of this episode as a follow-up to that one—part compelling history, part injection of approachable wisdom...

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