# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sundari-nanda
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:52:46.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sundari-nanda"
name: "Sundari Nanda"
slug: "sundari-nanda"
description: "Princess Sundarī Nandā of Shakya, also known simply as Sundarī, was the daughter of King Suddhodana and Queen Mahapajapati Gotami. She was the half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became a Buddha. She became a nun after the enlightenment of her half-brother and became an arhat. She was the foremost among bhikkhunis in the practice of jhana. She lived during the 6th century BCE in what is now Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India."
tagline: "Half-sister of Gautama Buddha"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nanda_before_Buddha_Roundel_38_buddha_ivory_tusk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.94
  momentum:             10.76086956521739
  historical:           8.815732
  currentAttention:     59.78260869565216
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tôn-đà-lợi Nan-đà"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सुन्दरीनन्दा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nanda (hercegnő)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda_(biksuni)"
    title: "Nanda (biksuni)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar%C4%AB_Nand%C4%81"
    title: "Sundarī Nandā"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "සුන්දරී නන්දා මහරහත් තෙරණිය"
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  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump