Were he alive today, the Buddha would be in jail for child-support violations. Two-and-a-half millenniums of adoration and mythology have obscured the unflattering fact that the Buddha was a deadbeat dad. So a shimmering new English translation of the Buddhacarita , the 2nd century Sanskrit poem chronicling his life, reminds us that in his search for enlightenment and release from samsara the wheel of rebirths that condemns us to endless lives and thus suffering he cruelly abandoned his wife and young son Rahula (whose name, making a not-so-subtle point, means...
Siddhartha's Saga
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