# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/devadatta
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:21:42.228Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Devadatta was a Buddhist monk, cousin and brother-in-law to Gautama Siddhārtha himself. By most accounts he turned against the teacher, leading a breakaway faction in the earliest days of the religion. The tradition casts him as evil and divisive — the schismatic who fractured the community from within. How much is history and how much is parable, the sources don't say. What remains is the shape of betrayal: the insider who broke faith.