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Yaśodharā or Yashodhara (Pali: Yasodharā, Sanskrit: यशोधरा, romanized: Yaśodharā) was the wife of Prince Siddhartha (until he left his home to become a śramaṇa), the mother of Rāhula, and the sister of Mahaprajapati Gautami.
Yaśodharā (P. Yasodharā; T. grags 'dzin ma གྲགས་འཛིན་མ་; C. yeshutuoluo) was the wife of Siddhartha Gautama and the mother of his son Rāhula. In the Pali tradition, she is often referred to as Rāhulamātā, "the mother of Rāhula." She later became a monastic (bhikkhunī) and attained arhathood.
Mar 31, 2023 · A novel by Vanessa R. Sasson explores the untold story of Yasodhara, the woman who was married to the one who became the Buddha. She reveals the pain and suffering of being abandoned by her husband, who left her behind to seek enlightenment.
And in this possibility, the story tells us (sometimes) that the Future Buddha had a wife known as Yasodhara. And the story says little about her youth. The only detail the early hagiographies do provide about her (quite systematically in fact) is that she was one of the Buddha’s seven co-natals.
Separated from the world, he later married Yaśodharā (Yaśodharā was the daughter of King Suppabuddha and Amita), and together they had one child: a son named Rāhula. Both Yashodhara and Rāhula later became disciples of Buddha.
The story describes also the many years spent in futile and extreme asceticism, his achievement of Buddhahood, his subsequent life as a teacher, and final death. His wife, Yasodharā, appears only as a shadowy figure in that larger, more important, story.
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Sep 28, 2019 · Learn about Yaśodharā, the wife of Śākyamuni Buddha, who gave birth to Rāhula after a long pregnancy. Read how she tried to win back the Buddha and how he taught her the Dharma.
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