Mahapajapati Gotami
Disciple of Gautama Buddha
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Updated 2026-05-29
Buddha's foster mother who pushed hard enough to become Buddhism's first ordained nun, making her the original architect of female monastic life in the tradition.
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Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī or simply Prajāpatī was the foster-mother, step-mother and maternal aunt of the Buddha. In Buddhist tradition, she was the first woman to seek ordination for women, which she did from Siddhartha Gautama directly, and she became the first bhikṣuṇī.
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