How a Mother Would Tell the Buddha’s Birth Story
A meditation teacher reimagines the birth of Siddhartha Gautama from Queen Maya’s perspective.
Maya
Five Tricycle Stories to Celebrate Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day, we practice learning to see all beings as our mother in order to shift toward a kinder way of being.
Three Forgotten Stories About The Buddha’s Mother
How obscure stories about Maya can help us untangle the misogynistic knots from Buddhism’s past.
A New Path Into the Past
Stars at Dawn integrates forgotten stories of influential women into the Buddha’s time-honored biography.
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