Vanessa R. Sasson is Professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal and Creative Arts Department of Marianopolis College, Canada. She is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (2007), co-editor of Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (2009), and editor of Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions (2013).

Sasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha explores the emotional dimensions to the story of the Buddha while also making new connections in familiar material ... to brilliant effect.

• Introductory NoteForeword, Wendy Doniger Prologue1: Beginnings2: Monsoon Rain3: Adjustments4: Durga5: Festival Day6: Surpanakha7: The Choosing8: The Peacock Garden9: The Competition10: Wearing the Red Line11: Soil and Suffering12: News13: The First Sights14: The Fight15: In the Arms of a Tree16: Departure17: Sadness18: Tapestries19: Holding on and Letting Go20: Out the Gates21: Devadatta22: Splendour23: The Return24: Overcoming Obstacles25: DeparturesStudy QuestionsNotes

Vanessa R. Sasson is Professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal and Creative Arts Department of Marianopolis College, Canada. She is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (2007), co-editor of Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (2009), and editor of Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions (2013).

Sasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha explores the emotional dimensions to the story of the Buddha while also making new connections in familiar material ... to brilliant effect.

• Introductory NoteForeword, Wendy Doniger Prologue1: Beginnings2: Monsoon Rain3: Adjustments4: Durga5: Festival Day6: Surpanakha7: The Choosing8: The Peacock Garden9: The Competition10: Wearing the Red Line11: Soil and Suffering12: News13: The First Sights14: The Fight15: In the Arms of a Tree16: Departure17: Sadness18: Tapestries19: Holding on and Letting Go20: Out the Gates21: Devadatta22: Splendour23: The Return24: Overcoming Obstacles25: DeparturesStudy QuestionsNotes

Vanessa R. Sasson is Professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal and Creative Arts Department of Marianopolis College, Canada. She is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (2007), co-editor of Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (2009), and editor of Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions (2013).

Sasson's Yasodhara and the Buddha explores the emotional dimensions to the story of the Buddha while also making new connections in familiar material ... to brilliant effect.

• Introductory NoteForeword, Wendy Doniger Prologue1: Beginnings2: Monsoon Rain3: Adjustments4: Durga5: Festival Day6: Surpanakha7: The Choosing8: The Peacock Garden9: The Competition10: Wearing the Red Line11: Soil and Suffering12: News13: The First Sights14: The Fight15: In the Arms of a Tree16: Departure17: Sadness18: Tapestries19: Holding on and Letting Go20: Out the Gates21: Devadatta22: Splendour23: The Return24: Overcoming Obstacles25: DeparturesStudy QuestionsNotes