Devadatta

Buddhist monk, cousin and brother-in-law of Gautama Siddhārtha · Religious Figures · Lived 600 BC to 490 BC · aged 110

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The cousin who tried to kill the Buddha. Devadatta is Buddhism's arch-traitor, remembered across traditions as the monk who split the sangha and plotted murder in the faith's first generation.

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150 Devadatta Rolls a Rock to Kill the Buddha

151 Devadatta Causes Schism in the Sangha

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SHAKA GOICHIDAIKI ZUE 1839 Mahapajapati Gotami and Devadatta

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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.