# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahapajapati-gotami
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:42:03.761Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī was the maternal aunt of Siddhartha Gautama, his mother's sister, and raised him after his mother's death. When the Buddha began teaching, she sought something unprecedented: ordination for women. She approached him directly with the request. He granted it, and she became the first bhikṣuṇī in Buddhist tradition — the first woman to take monastic vows in the sangha. Her persistence opened a path that had not existed before.