Magnolia Grove - Mahapajapati Gotami (8.14.2020)
I'd read back then that Mahapajapati in the early centuries of Buddhism in India, that she had a status that was almost as high as the Buddha, she was a very high status and especially among the nuns. And I thought, well let's just get a statue of her for spirit rock. And so Chloe said sure, something like that. And she was going to support it, something like that but it was kind of like a shirt kind of thing or something. And then when we bought this building, to become here I MC in Redwood City, she came back to me one day and she said, Now I'm ready to get to have you have this statue made for you. And so she found a local artists that did a friend of hers and. And then I don't know if any of you know and a, there's a nun in England named john sundara, and she was around that time here and so she k...